UCSB   LIBRARY 


A  Itonk  of  Umlaium 

By 

HELEN  VAN-ANDERSON 

Author  of 

"  The  Right  Knock,  "  "Carrol's 
Conversion,"  "Journal  of  a  Live 
Woman,"  "Story  of  Teddy,  "  "Tem- 
ple Teachings,"  "Heart  Talks,"  etc. 


Mystic  in  its  true  meaning  is  spiritual  knowledge: 
that  is,  knowledge  of  spiritual  and  supersensual  things 
perceived  by  the  spiritual  powers  of  perception.  These 
powers  are  germinally  contained  in  every  human  organ- 
ization .  — Hartman. 

Publhhtd  by    THE    NEW    YORK    MAGAZINE 

"A  Cheer  Up  Magazine" 
^^  N.   William  Street  New  York 


Copyright,  1906,  fy 

THE   C.    E.    ELLIS   CO. 

All  Rightt  Reserved 
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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER  PAGE 

I.  The  Necessary  Preparation  for  the 
Mystic  Life  and  the  True  Found- 
ation for  Health,  Happiness  and 
Prosperity  ....  9 

II.     The  Unseen  Forces         .          .          .          22 

III.  Your  Senses  and  Their   Planes  of 

Activity  .          .          .          .          34 

IV.  The  Law  of  Vibration  and  the  Se- 

cret of  Clairvoyance  and  Clair- 

audience  ....          46 

V.      A  Lesson  on  Clairvoyance        .          .          60 

VI.      Symbols  and  Visions  and  How  to 

Interpret  Them          ...          80 

VII.     Concentration;    a  Means  of  Mind 

Training .....          96 

VIII.     Meditation  or  How  to  Enter    the 

Silence     .          .          .          .  1 1  z 

IX.     The  Secret  of  Mystic  Power     .         .        1 26 

X.     Mental  and  Physical  Conditions  for 

Health     .....        141 

XL     The  Christ  Healing        .          .         .        153 

XII.     Passing  into  the  Beyond  .         .          .        165 

XIII.     The  Law  of  Prosperity   .          .          .174 

PRACTICAL  APPLICATION 
OF  HEALING  TREAT- 
MENTS with  KEY-NOTE 
FOR  EACH 

I.  Treatment  for  Cutting  Off  Unde- 
sirable Influences  .  .  .  193 


II.     Treatment  for  Overcoming  Secret 

or  Vicious  Habits        .          .          .         197 

III.  Treatment    for    Cases    of  Catarrh, 

Throat  and  Lung  Diseases     .          .        201 

IV.  Treatment  for  Nervousness  and  Self 

Consciousness    .          .          .          .205 

V.     Treatment  for  Indigestion  and  Con- 
stipation   .          .          .         .          .209 

VI.      Treatment  for  Failing  Eyesight          .        213 
VII.     Treatment  for  Rheumatism        .          .        217 

VIII.      Treatment  for  Those  Addicted  to 

Evil  Habits        .         .         .          .        223 

IX.     Treatment  for  Managing  Children 

and  Keeping  Them  Healthy          .        227 

X.     Treatment  for  Harmonizing  Home 

Relations  .  .  .  .231 


FOREWORD 


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HIS  message  is  sent  forth  to  the 
faithful  hearts  and  willing  ears  of 
those  who  are  eager  to  be  and  to 
do.  The  Text  Book  so  long 
promised  and  so  long  waited  for  is 
now  ready  for  you.  It  is  what  you 
need  and  what  you  have  earned  by 
your  faithfulness.  Yes,  Beloved,  most 
closely  have  the  silent  watchers  of  your 
progress  looked  for  the  signs  that  you 
were  ready  for  farther  steps  in  the  knowl- 
edge of  mystic  truths.  Though  some  of 
you  have  lagged  by  the  wayside  and  some 
have  murmured  at  the  long  delay,  yet  the 
majority  have  been  able  to  stand  the  test. 
They  have  lived  prayerfully  and  carefully 
keeping  in  mind  and  practice  the  living 
truth  of  the  Success  Club  Degrees.  Be- 
cause of  this  the  time  has  come  for  more 


definite  and  practical  instruction  that  you 
may  still  farther  advance  in  the  under- 
standing and  practice  of  the  mystic  law  of 
life. 

In  a  series  of  plain,  simple  lessons, 
simple  as  to  form,  yet  profound  as  to  con- 
tents, you  will  be  shown,  O,  Beloved,  the 
way  of  blessedness  and  peace,  for  in  these 
are  the  germ  seeds  that  may  blossom  into 
the  true  flowers  of  health  and  happiness 
and  prosperity. 

Heed,  you  faithful,  and  be  steadfast 
in  perseverance,  you  that  are  longing  for 
the  Great  Guidance.  There  has  been 
woven  into  the  texture  of  this  book  that 
which  will  vivify  whosoever  hath  wrought 
truth  into  the  fabric  of  his  daily  life.  For 
this  he  shall  be  called  one  of  the  weavers 
of  the  Great  Pattern. 

He  that  hath  ears  to  hear,  let  him 
hear.  H.  V-A. 


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"  Cling  thou  to  Me  ! 

Clasp  Me  with  heart  and  mind !    so  shall  thou 

dwell 

Surely  with  Me  on  high.     But  if  thy  thought 
Droops  from  such  height ;  if  thou  be  'st  weak 

to  set 

Body  and  soul  upon  Me  constantly. 
Despair  not !  give  Me  lower  service  !  seek 
To  read  Me,  worshipping  with  steadfast  will ; 
And,  if  thou  canst  not  worship  steadfastly. 
Work  for  Me,  toil  in  works  pleasing  to  Me  I 
For  he  that  laboreth  right  for  love  of  Me 
Shall  finally  attain  !   But,  if  in  this 
Thy  faint  heart  fails,  bring  Me  thy  failure!  find 
Refuge  in  Me  1  let  fruits  of  labor  go. 
Renouncing  all  for  Me,  with  lowliest  heart. 
So  shall  thou  come ;  for,  though  to  know  is 

more 

Than  diligence,  yet  worship  better  is 
Than  knowing,  and  renouncing  better  still. 
Near  to  renunciation — very  near — 
Dwelleth  Eternal  Peace.1 

Song  Celestial. 


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CHAPTER  I 

The  Necessary  Preparation  for  the   Mystic 

Life,  and  the  True  Foundation 

for  Health 

"Happy  is  lie  that  hath  the  God  of  Jacob 
for  his  help,  whose  hope  is  in  the  Lord 
his  God." 

Beloved:  You  have  already  started 
in  the  mystic  life,  the  beginning  of  which 
is  trnst,  and  the  end,  peace.  Out  of 
these  come  all  blessings.  The  Degrees 
taught  you  prayers  and  thoughts  for 
daily  and  nightly  use.  Your  faith  grew 
and  you  knew  the  joy  of  spiritual  son- 
ship  and  daughter  ship.  The  Father 
became  a  Friend,  a  Counselor,  a  Guide 
and  the  Center  of  the  great  unseen 
forces. 

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Into  your  heart  came  the  sweet  whis- 
per, "0,  my  Beloved,  thee  I  embrace 
and  enfold,  thee  I  hold  and  bless  to  the 
days  everlasting."  But  still  you  did 
not  see  a  reason  for  the  joy,  nor  know 
why  you  were  kept  day  after  day  for 
thirty  days  on  one  Degree. 

No  more  does  the  child  understand 
the  reason  for  its  long  lisping  and  re- 
peating of  the  words  that  shall  at  last 
become  language.  The  teaching  given 
in  the  Degrees  is  necessary  through  the 
years,  but  at  first  its  main  value  is  as 
training. 

He  -who  -would  Did  you  not  grow  as  the  seed  unfolds, 
as  the  child  grows?  Listen,  Beloved; 
know  this:  he  who  would  be  as  the 
strongest  must  first  be  as  the  weakest. 
He  who  would  be  the  master,  must  first 
be  servant.  To  attain  the  great  faith 
and  splendid  courage  is  to  be  willing  to 
be  nothing  in  order  to  become  all.  Here 
gleams  a  golden  thread  from  the  Ancient 

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Wisdom.  Think  over  it  well  and  dili- 
gently. You  are  a  being  on  the  one  side, 
weak,  ignorant,  dependent  on  every  wind 
that  blows;  on  the  other  side,  you  are  on  the  «her  d& 

are  strong,  ivise 

strong,  wise,  intelligent.     <_  intelligent 

The  first  aspect  of  yourself  you  know ; 
the  second,  you  but  vaguely  dream  of  as 
a  possibility. 

On  your  weak  side  you  are  subject  to 
fears,  sorrows  and  grievous  troubles  of 
all  kinds,  but  this  side  is  not  that  which 
God  gave  you,  for  as  Timothy  says: 
"God  hath  not  given  us  the  spirit  of  fear, 
but  of  love,  and  of  power,  and  of  a  sound 
mind, ' '  and  this,  Beloved,  represents  the 
strong  side. 

It  is  God  who  hath  given  us  love,  Aioundnind 
power  and  a  sound  mind.  You  know  this 
to  be  true  because  you  have  had  times 
of  loving,  of  being  powerful,  and  of 
using  good  judgment.  You  know  what 
it  is  to  be  loving,  you  know  that  in  the 
loving  state  everything  and  everybody 

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is  most  pleasing  in  your  sight.     You 
see  beauty   and  goodness   everywhere. 
You  are  trustful,  hopeful,  kind,  just  and 
true. 
when  you  an      When  you  are  loving  it  is  easy  to  do 

loving 

unto  others  as  you  would  have  others 
do  unto  you,  and  you  know  that  with  this 
love  there  is  power;  the  power  that 
makes  it  possible  to  overcome  tempta- 
tions, to  be  strong,  instead  of  weak; 
power  to  undertake  tasks  and  perform 
them ;  power  to  help  others  to  do  things 
that  are  noble;  power  to  conquer  ob- 
stacles, to  meet  difficulties  of  any  kind. 
A  sound  mind  goes  with  all  these,  and 
when  you  think  of  this  wonderful  side  of 
your  being  you  can  understand  some- 
GO<T  i  great  intention  thing  of  God's  great  intentions  concern- 

conctrning  you 

ing  you.  Would  He  have  put  the  capac- 
ity of  love  into  your  soul  if  He  had  not 
intended  you  to  love?  Would  He  have 
given  you  the  marvelous  powers  that  are 
truly  Godlike  had  He  not  intended  you  to 

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use  them?  Would  He  have  given  you 
that  wonderful  balance  wheel  called 
sound  common  sense  if  it  had  not  been  a 
part  of  your  privilege  to  exercise  it! 
You  can  see  now  exactly  what  the  train- 
ing of  the  Degrees  was  intended  to  do 
for  you. 

In  the  first  you  were  taught  re- 
ceptivity. This  is  very  important  al- 
ways. It  is  a  child-like  state  and  there- 
fore the  first  step  toward  becoming  as  a 
little  child  who  can  enter  into  the  King- 
dom of  Heaven.  You  were  given  pray- 
ers that  would  make  you  child-like,  that 
would  create  within  you  a  consciousness 
of  connection  with,  and  reliance  upon, 
the  Heavenly  Father.  These  prayers 
were  not  only  intended  to  make  you  re- 
ceptive to  greater  knowledge  from 
higher  spheres  but  to  keep  your  attention 
fixed  with  expectancy  upon  the  idea  of  &*•*  «>« 

expectancy 

receiving  from  God  the  peace  and  joy 
and  faith  which  the  Spirit  alone  can  give. 

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This  expectation  which  causes  you  to 
turn  to  the  Source  of  all  good  is  one  of 
mtude  the  surest  means  of  increasing  your 
faith. 

Faith,  Beloved,  you  must  have. 
All  things  are  done  through  faith.  At 
first  it  may  be  but  the  faith  which  de- 
mands only  little  things,  yet  with  every 
answer  to  the  faith  that  inspires  the  be- 
lieving prayer,  there  is  an  increase  of  the 

w      .     .      .t*  .  •  <~J     X  V  f 

Fatth  illumined 

with  knowledge  faith  that  is  illumined  with  knowledge. 

When,  through  faith,  you  have  been 
able  to  stand  in  the  midst  of  hard  and 
pressing  conditions  as  the  victor,  you 
have  a  deeper,  more  trustful,  more  glor- 
ious faith  to  meet  conditions  that  op- 
press you  in  another  form. 

The  experiences  of  the  soul  in  passing 
through  this  world  have  been  fittingly 
compared  to  a  journey  along  the  high- 
way of  life.  Now,  you  know  it  is  not  pos- 
sible to  take  a  journey  of  any  length 
without  passing  through  valleys,  climb- 

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ing  mountains,  crossing  streams,  going 
through  the  desert.  You  know  it  is 
not  possible  to  take  a  journey  without 
meeting  obstacles  of  one  kind  or  an- 
other and  being  obliged  to  face  all  man- 
ner of  dangers  and  emergencies. 

It  is  the  same  in  this  pilgrimage  of  the  P<krimaze  cf 

the  soul 

soul.  Through  the  dark  valleys  of  hu- 
man experience  it  must  go.  From  the 
mountain  peaks  of  grand  moral  achieve- 
ment or  high  and  noble  self-sacrifice,  the 
soul  may  look  afar  upon  beauties  as  well 
as  upon  obstacles,  yet  having  gained  the 
mountain  top,  it  finds  strength,  courage 
and  enthusiasm  to  descend  into  the  next 

Strength  to  climb  the 

valley  and  climb  up  the  next  mountain. 
In  your  journey  through  the  experi- 
ences of  every  day,  Beloved,  you  are, 
therefore,  to  remember  that  through  all 
the  valleys  you  need  have  no  fear,  for 
God  is  ever  with  you,  if  you  will,  and 
His  love  is  the  rod  and  staff  that  shall 
comfort  you. 

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The  meaning  of  this  valley  as  applied 
to  the  earth,  is  of  a  depression  in  the 
land,  a  place  of  narrow  outlook,  of  shad- 
ows. It  may  be  illustrated  in  your  jour- 
ney as  a  place,  or  condition,  rather,  in 
which  you  are  hedged  about  with  bar- 
riers, in  which  you  may  be  depressed  or 
afraid  or  ill,  even  unto  death.  How  pre- 

Tkt  comforting 

ivorJs  cious  then,  the  comforting  words  of  the 
singer  of  that  beautiful  Psalm  begin- 
ning :  * '  The  Lord  is  my  Shepherd. ' ' 

Can  you  not  see  how  inspiring  these 
words  are  in  placing  before  your  mind 
and  within  your  heart  the  picture  of 
the  true  relationship  between  you  and 
God,  your  Father? 

Do  not  fail  to  learn  this  23rd  Psalm, 
and  keep  it  within  your  heart  and  mind 
repeating  it  many  times  a  day,  not  only 
that  it  may  make  you  more  trustful  and 

Mori  trustful  and       ,.,,,.,  ,  ,  i       ,     .,  n    , 

child-like,  but  that  it  may  recall  to  your 
mind  the  great  and  mighty  truth  that 
you  are  not  in  this  world  alone,  but  tHat 

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you  have  a  Guide  Who  accompanies  you 
on  every  day's  journey,  "Who  leads  you 
into  the  fields  of  refreshment  where 
there  are  cool,  crystal  waters,  Who  re- 
stores your  soul  when  it  is  weary,  Who 
leads  you  into  the  paths  of  peace. 

All  this  helps  you  to  realize  the  strong  Develop* y*,r  spirit- 
ual qualities  by 

side  of  your  being,  the  God-side,  which  uiinstliem 
is  love,  power  and  a  sound  mind.  Even 
as  a  child  develops  strength  in  its  phy- 
sical body  by  using  its  body,  so  you,  Be- 
loved, develop  your  spiritual  side  by  us- 
ing the  qualities  belonging  to  that  side. 
When  you  make  a  place  in  your  heart  Make  a  place  in 

your  heart 

for  love  there  will  be  no  room  for  fear, 
for  perfect  love  casteth  out  fear.  The 
exercises  which  you  have  been  given  for 
daily  practice  cultivate  this  spiritual 
side  and  cause  it  to  grow  into  the  fulness 
of  the  stature  of  Christ,  the  Pattern. 

It  matters  not  how  long  it  may  take  for  Tke  right  beginning 
the  perfected  work,  it  is  necessary  to 
make  the  right  beginning.     Day  by  day, 


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Beloved,  you  are  to  grow  strong  in  the 
faith  and  practice  of  the  love  life.  You 
are  to  have  that  supreme  trust  in  the 
goodness  of  God  which  will  enable  you 
At  oil  times jnud  at  all  times  to  be  filled  with  the  peace  of 

<w ith  peace 

God. 

Let  go  of  your  fears, — your  fears  of 
poverty.  Why  should  you  be  afraid 
that  you  will  be  left  without  any- 
thing? Why  should  you  be  afraid  that 
anything  can  happen  to  you,  the  child 
of  God !  It  is  only  when  you  are  living 
on  the  dark  or  weak  side  of  your  nature, 
Beloved,  that  you  can  have  fears. 

Whenever  you  find  yourself  afraid  of 
anything,  stop,  and  say,  even  aloud : 

Freedom  from  fear         HOW   CAN  I  BE  AFRAID?      HAS  NOT   GOD, 

MY  FATHER,  GIVEN  ME  THE  SPIRIT  OF  LOVE? 
No,  I  WILL  NOT  BE  AFRAID  OF  ANYTHING- 
FROM  THIS  MOMENT  I  SEE  MYSELF  AS  A  NEW 
CREATURE  BECAUSE  I  AM  DETERMINED  TO 
SHOW  FORTH  THE  LOVE  AND  POWER  AND 
SOUND  MIND  THAT  GOD  GAVE  ME  IN  THE 

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BEGINNING  AND  INTENDED  THAT  I  SHOULD 
INCREASE  BY  USING.  NOT  ONLY  WILL  I 
CAST  OUT  FEAR  OF  ALL  THINGS,  OF  ALL  CON- 
DITIONS, BUT  I  WILL  SEE  IN  ALL  THINGS 
THAT  WHICH  IS  GOOD.  THE  LOVE  IN  ME 
SHALL  BE  LIKE  A  WHITE  LIGHT,  SHINING 
INTO  THE  DARKNESS  OF  POVERTY,  OF  SICK- 
NESS, OF  ANGER  OR  STRIFE,  AND  IT  SHALL 
MELT  AWAY  ALL  THAT  IS  EVIL. 

If  you  will  say  this,  Beloved,  every  Every  day  and 

,  every  hour 

day  and  every  hour,  if  necessary,  you 
will  find  yourself  growing  strong  and 
healthy  and  trustful.  It  is  the  speaking 
of  words  concerning  your  God-nature 
that  will  enable  your  God-nature  to  con- 
quer the  lower  or  human  nature. 

Paul  called  this  the  putting  off  of  the 
old  man  with  his  former  conversation 
and  deeds.  Jesus  called  it  the  denying 
of  self,  and  among  the  great  Masters 
who  have  given  us  pearls  of  truth,  it  is 
said,  the  "sword  of  the  wisdom  of  soul 
which  shall  cleave  asunder  the  ignorance 

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and  doubt"  shall  be  made  to  come  and 

dwell  in  your  heart  if  you  are  faithful 

in  your  practice  of  forgetting  the  self. 

This  is  the  real  foundation  for  health, 

for  until  the  mind  is  calm  and  the  heart 

free  from  fears,  there  can  be  no  real  or 

abiding  health. 

rour  spirit  it      it  is  the  spirit  which  is  God's  child, 

always  perfect 

and  you  are  His  child.  As  spirit  you 
are  not  sick  and  cannot  suffer  from  any 
sickness  or  imperfection.  God  is  your 
health  because  His  spirit  is  your  spirit, 
His  health  is  your  health.  To  live  the 
TO  n-ve  the  Godly  life  is  to  establish  health.  No 

Godly  lift 

matter  what  your  body  may  show  forth, 
your  spirit  is  always  perfect,  always 
whole  and  sound.  To  know  this  with 
that  faith  which  is  absolute  and  cannot 
be  shaken  is  to  be  able  to  lay  hold  upon 
the  mighty  promises. 

Take  your  Bible,  Beloved,  and  look  up 
every  reference  to  health.  You  will  find 
there  are  many,  and  each  one  will  teach 

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you  the  truth  of  the  spirit  and  the  power 
and  the  love  of  God.  Many  grievous 
diseases  have  been  helped  by  these 
words:  "Bless  the  Lord,  0  my  soul, 
and  forget  not  all  His  benefits  Who  for- 
giveth  all  thine  iniquities;  Who  healeth 
all  thy  diseases." 

Your  iniquities  can  be  forgiven  when 
you  know  you  are  His  child,  and  begin 
to  live  as  His  child.  Your  diseases  can 
be  healed  when  you  begin  to  know  that 
you  are  spirit,  and  live  in  the  conscious-  Live  in  the  c 

ness  of  Spirit 

ness  of  spirit,  for  through  the  Spirit  of 
God  your  body  may  be  healed  of  its  dis- 
eases. 

Let  the  same  mind  be  in  you  that  was 
in  Jesus  Christ.  This  is  the  corner  stone 
of  Health,  Happiness  and  Prosperity. 


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CHAPTER  II 

The  Unseen  Forcea 

"Thou  art  ruler  of  the  world,  0  man; 
thou  hast  many  under  thee." 

Even  from  the  moment  that  you  came 
into  the  world  an  innocent  little  child. 
Beloved,  you  were  surrounded  and  ac- 
companied in  all  your  experiences  by 
great  unseen  forces  that  attend  the 
The  wi  ttiiifgi-vet  soul.  The  soul  itself  gives  them  power 

them  power 

to  act  for  good  or  evil,  so  when  you  were 
only  a  child,  you  were,  through  your 
power  of  choice,  developing  forces  with- 
in which  would  help  or  hinder  you  to 
become  a  good,  holy  man  or  woman. 
"When  you  were  old  enough  to  choose 
between  right  and  wrong,  every  time  you 
made  a  right  choice  these  forces  in  your 
soul  were  strong  and  more  able  to  help 
you.  Every  time  you  yielded  to  a 

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temptation  they  became  weak  and  more 
in  accord  with  your  own  weak  will.  If 
you  were  conscientious,  always  trying  to 
do  right,  the  forces  became  like  guardian  Guardian  **pi* 
angels,  watching  over  you,  whispering  to 
you,  and  in  many  unseen  ways  helping 
you  to  do  the  right,  thus  leading  you 
into  the  path  of  light,  which  is  knowl- 
edge of  truth. 

But  if  you  were  weak  in  your  will  to 
do  right,  swayed  hither  and  thither  by 
any  passing  impulse  or  outward  in- 
fluence, the  forces  followed  your  own 

» 

weak  will  and  led  you  into  confusion 
and  darkness. 

By  this  you  will  see  how  important  it 
is,  even  from  babyhood,  to  know  and  love 
the  right,  to  have  a  high  moral  standard 
and  aim  for  right  conduct,  and  to  be  Almfor  righl 
moved  by  right  and  pure  motives.    It  is  conduc' 
often  because  of  your  weakness  of  will 
to  do  right  and  to  look  for  that  which  is 
beautiful  and  just  and  holy  that  you 

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have  yielded  to  the  guidance  of  your 
weak  side  and  have,  therefore,  misdi- 
rected these  wonderful  indwelling  pow- 
rour  equipment  of  ers  that  are  as  much  a  part  of  your 

\nd-welling  pvuien 

equipment  for  life  in  this  world  as  the 
members  of  your  body — your  hands, 
your  feet,  your  eyes,  etc. 

There  is  another  thing  that  I  want 
you  to  understand  in  regard  to  the  un- 
seen forces.  THERE  ARE  FORCES  OUTSIDE 

AS  WELL,  AS  WITHIN  THE  SOUL,  AND  THE 
KIND  AND  QUALITY  THAT  ARE  WITHIN  AT- 
TRACT THE  KIND  AND  QUALITY  THAT  ARE 

WITHOUT.  For  example :  if,  through  an 
earnest  desire  to  do  right  you  have  cul- 
tivated the  forces  for  good  in  your  own 
soul  you  will  attract  the  forces  for  good 
that  are  in  the  great  unseen  or  psychic 
world,  for  just  as  surely  as  the  soul  de- 
velops a  strong  will,  either  for  good  or 
evil,  it  attracts  forces  that  are  strong 
either  for  good  or  evil. 
These  forces  either  within  or  without 

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may  be  forces  of  intelligence,  of  love  and 
good  will,  or  forces  of  ignorance  and  ill 
will,  for  you  must  remember,  Beloved, 
that  man  should  have  dominion  over 

.  .  dominion 

everything  m  creation  that  is  lower  than 
himself,  because  God  intended  that  man 
or  the  spirit  in  man  should  be  the  most 
intelligent,  the  most  powerful,  and  there- 
fore the  master  of  that  which  is  less 
intelligent,  less  powerful  than  himself. 
In  the  last  chapter  I  made  it  plain  to 
you  that  your  real  self  is  spirit.  If  you 
will  begin  to  realize  that  the  Spirit 
is  the  I,  and  that  it  is  of  the  essence  and 
nature  of  God,  you  will  see  how  it  is  that 
when  you  begin  to  acknowledge  God  in 
all  your  ways  as  the  Father  and  the  roa  Develop  the 

/>,.  *•       -n  T        •{•!  j  i  j-i         forces  iv  hie  h  become 

Giver  of  all  good  gifts,  you  develop  the  Jyour  unieen  helferl 
forces  which  become  your  guardian  an- 
gels and  unseen  helpers.     This  is  true 
concerning  the  forces  within  you  and 
also  those  without. 
Through  your  own  will  and  power  of 

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choice,  by  calling  upon  God  and  feeling 
the  presence  of  God  within  you,  you  may 
give  the  glory  and  the  power  of  every- 
thing you  do  to  this  indwelling  Pres- 
ence. You  prepare  to  enter  and  possess 
The  Promhed  Land  the  land  which  God  intended  you  to  pos- 
sess and  use. 

Do  you  wonder  what  this  land  is? 
It  is  your  earth  nature,  which  must  be 
cultivated  until  it  can  bring  forth  the 
seed  and  the  harvest  according  to  the 
will  of  the  spirit,  who  is  the  true  master. 
How  much  this  means  to  you!  From 
the  time  you  were  a  child  you  longed  for 
happiness.  You  longed  to  be  under- 
stood, you  longed  to  be  able  to  overcome 
every  evil  condition  that  was  a  disad- 
vantage or  an  obstacle.  Is  it  not  true, 
indeed,  that  at  any  time  of  your  life,  if 
the  question  had  been  put  to  you  as  to 
whether  you  wanted  to  bring  forth  the 
best  or  the  worst,  you  would  have  ans- 
wered, "The  best,  always;  I  want  to 

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bring  forth  the  best  in  everything;  I 
want  to  be  the  best  that  I  can  be."  But 
though  this  was  your  wish,  many  times 
you  were  discouraged,  and  often  felt  the 
uselessness  of  even  trying. 
If  you  will  study  this  lesson  very  care-  Dhcouragements  made 

n    -11  .-ii  i  1»  it  harder  for     \ou  tu 

fully  you  will  see  why  your  discourage-  fress  on  J 
ments  made  it  harder  for  you  to  press 
on.  You  will  see  why,  when  you  did 
your  best,  with  every  victory  you  were 
given  more  faith  and  strength  for 
further  victories. 

When  you  began  the  study  of  the 
Degrees,  the  one  important  thing  that 
was  given  you  from  first  to  last  in  all  the 
teachings  of  the  Degrees  and  the  mes- 
sages was  this ;  God,  the  Father,  who  is  The  most  important 

menage 

both  Father  and  Mother,  is  also  your 
Friend.  Speak  to  Him  often,  think  of 
Him,  praise  Him,  put  yourself  under  His 
guidance,  trust  in  Him,  rejoice  that  He 
has  given  you  Himself,  and  do  your  very 
best  to  be  worthy  of  His  guidance.  This 

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is  the  corner  stone  of  the  Degree  teach- 
ings, is  it  not? 

When  you  began  to  write  in  your  re- 
ports as  to  your  experience  day  by  day, 
you  were  asked  if  you  had  felt  the  un- 
seen forces.  Now  you  understand  why 
you  were  asked  that  question.  If  you 
had  been  faithful  in  your  Degree  work, 
fervent  and  constant  in  your  prayerful 
living,  yearning  always  to  keep  close  to 
things  which  were  true  and  holy  and  of 
God,  it  could  not  be  otherwise  than  that 
sooner  or  later  you  would  feel  the  unseen 
forces,  catch  the  comforting,  inspiring 
whisperings  of  the  blessed  messengers 
of  light  who  came  to  you  as  ministering 
helpers  because  you  were  faithful  in 
acknowledging  and  praising  God. 

There  is  an  old  legend  in  the  Talmud 

An  old  legend 

about  Solomon;  it  is  this;  he  was  so 
powerful  that  whenever  he  spoke  and 
desired  anything,  immediately  every- 
thing in  the  Universe  sprang  to  do  his 

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bidding ;  all  the  forces  and  powers  in  all 
the  realms  above  or  below  responded  to 
the  word  of  the  wise  man.  Now  while 
this  is  but  a  legend  there  is  a  really  won- 
derful truth  underlying  it.  The  word  of  The  'word  °f 

the  -wise 

the  wise  is  the  word  of  God.  The  wise 
soul  knows  God  and  knows  that  what- 
ever power  he  has  is  of  God.  He  recog- 
nizes the  supremacy  of  God,  and  that 
there  is  not  one  thing,  place,  space  or 
condition  in  the  whole  universe  that  is 
not  filled  with  the  power  of  God.  Know- 
ing this,  His  word  is  the  utterance  of  the 
law,  and  it  becomes  a  creative  word,  a 
quickening  power  to  bring  forth,  to  stir 
into  activity,  everything  visible  or  in- 
visible. 
To  become  wise  you  must  speak  the  word,  of  truth 

quicken  your  mind 

word  of  truth.    It  is  that  which  is  true  and  heart 
of  God  the  Father  and  you  His  child. 
God  is  the  most  high  and  only  Power 
which  is  above  all  other  powers.    You, 
His  child,  receive  from  Him  His  life  and 

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power,  His  love  and  intelligence.  Yes, 
every  attribute  which  belongs  to  Him  as 
the  Father  is  in  some  degree  manifest  or 
to  be  manifested  in  you,  His  child. 

Therefore  when  you  begin  to  speak 

words  which  acknowledge  Him  as  the 

ecame  they  art  power,  because  they  are  words  of  truth, 

•words  of  truth       -,  .    •,  •      i  -i   i 

they  quicken  your  mind  and  heart,  every 
thing  within  you,  so  that  you  know  the 
truth,  and  thus  become  wise  and  power- 
ful. 

Paul  said:  "Let  every  soul  be  subject 
unto  the  higher  powers,  for  there  is  no 
power  but  of  God."  Jesus  said:  "If  ye 
continue  in  my  word  ...  ye  shall 
know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make 
you  free."— John  viii,  31-32.  Why?  Be- 
cause when  you  are  wise  you  are  free; 
you  know  the  law.  But  He  did  not  mean 
speaking  the  word  with  your  lips  only, 
Living  at  -well  He  meant  living  as  well  as  speaking. 

at  tptaking 

Take  these  two  words:     God's  love. 
Think  about  them.    What  do  they  mean! 

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The  most  high,  holy,  unselfish,  far- 
reaching,  impartial,  perfect  love  is  of 
God,  yes,  is  God.  Is  it  not!  Keep  on 
saying  just  those  two  words:  God's 
love,  God's  love,  God's  love,  until  you 
really  feel  that  you  begin  to  understand  Uttti/yeu^ee/ t,^ 
the  kind  of  love  this  is.  After  you  have  Z^J0 
spent  a  few  days  saying  these  words  for 
ten  or  fifteen  minutes  at  a  time,  then 
thinking  silently  "God's  love,"  be- 
gin to  say,  "My  love  is  like  God's,  my 
love  is  like  God's."  Say  it  many  times, 
then  think  about  it,  see  what  it  means, 
see  if  it  is  true.  If  it  is  not  true,  try  to 
make  it  true. 

This  can  only  be  done  by  living  the 
love  that  is  just  like  God's.  That  is  by 
feeling  and  acting  God's  love. 

If  you  will  be  faithful  to  this  for  even 
one  week  so  that  you  can  honestly  say 
you  do  it  with  all  your  heart,  just  as 
earnestly  and  faithfully  as  possible, 
you  will  find  a  miracle  wrought  in  A  miracle  -wrought 

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your  life.  You  will  begin  to  feel  the  un- 
seen forces  within  your  soul  quickening 
into  activity  and  power. 

You  will  know  this  by  the  changes  that 

come  to  you,  for  these  are  the  evidences 

of  the  activity  of  the  unseen  forces.    You 

an d  precious  will  have  new  and  precious  experiences 

experiences 

in  meeting  people,  in  having  new  con- 
ditions in  your  life,  in  the  opportunities 
opening  before  you. 

Your  words  will  have  a  new  power 

because  they  will  be  words  of  the  wise 

one,  the  one  who  is  open  to  know  the 

truth  concerning  God  and  God's  nature. 

These  words:    "God's  love"  and  "my 

in  touch  -with  love  is  like  God's,"  will  put  you  in  touch 

great  S0ui,  fljj.Qjjgh  ajj  these  wondrous  messengers 

— the  unseen  forces — with  great  souls 
and  wise,  who  will  become  your  invisible 
helpers  and  teachers,  for  just  as  soon  as 
you  begin  to  understand  and  love  ac- 
cording to  the  love  of  God,  your  soul  will 
be  linked  with  all  souls  who  are  on  that 

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high,  pure,  holy  plane  of  knowledge  and 
power. 
There  is  no  greater  and  no  simpler  There » »« * 

and  no  simpler 

training  that  I  can  give  yon,  Beloved,  training 
than  I  have  given  you  in  these  words 
concerning  love.  To  say  them  and  live 
them  will  bring  you  to  a  conscious  knowl- 
edge of  the  unseen  forces  and  to  a  close 
and  holy  communion  with  God,  the  Heav- 
enly Father,  who  is  around,  about,  with- 
in, and  above,  and  in  Whom  we  live  and 
move  and  have  our  being. 


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CHAPTER  HI 

Your  Senses  and  Their  Planes  of  Activity 

"The  beginning  of  all  real  knowledge 
is  the  knowledge  of  self." 

As  you  become  conscious  of  the  un- 
seen forces  you  realize  new  powers  of 
the  senses.  You  are  able  to  hear  inward- 
ly and  see  and  feel.  The  summing  up  of 
this  quickening  of  the  senses  is  some- 
times called  clairsentience.  It  indicates 
that  you  are  able  to  function  on  some 
other  than  the  purely  material  plane. 
The  intermediary  or  psychic  plane  is  that 
which  connects  you  with  the  forces  that 
are  without  and  which  I  spoke  of  in 
the  last  chapter  as  being  good  or  evil,  ac- 
cording to  the  polarity  of  your  own  soul. 
By  this,  Beloved,  I  mean  according  to 
the  tendency  of  your  soul  toward  the 
g00(j  or  evil.  For  you  must  know  that  in 

like 

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the  psychic  as  in  the  material  realm  like 
attracts  like  and  what  is  strongly  pre- 
dominant within  you  finds  its  counter- 
part without. 

On  the  physical  plane  your  body  is  re- 
lated to  the  earth,  your  eye  to  the  ob- 
jects which  it  sees,  your  ear  to  the  sounds 
which  it  hears.  On  the  psychic,  or  inter- 

The  senses  find  a 

mediate  plane,  the  senses  find  a  corres-  corresponding 

rc&lnt 

ponding  realm  in  which  they  may  be  used 
just  as  definitely  and  advantageously  as 
on  the  physical.  This  gives  you  a 
glimpse  of  the  law  by  which  you  can, 
when  you  are  sufficiently  developed,  see, 
hear,  and  know  other  planes  than  the 
physical. 

I  have  already  told  you  that 
your  recognition  of  God's  love  and 
your  effort  to  live  the  loving  life  will  put  m»forct> 
you  in  touch  with  the  great  wise  forces  ea&r "  kelf 
and  intelligences  which  are  always  eager 
and  ready  to  help  you. 

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THE      MYSTIC      SCROLL 

who  have  lived  and  passed  out  of  earth 
life,  nor  does  it  necessarily  mean  angels 
or  beings  who  have  never  been  in  the 
earth  life,  though  under  some  circum- 
stances, it  may  mean  either  of  these.  It 
may  be  that  you  are  so  strongly  intent 
in  your  aspiration  for  truth  or  knowl- 
""your^f  edge  that  you  will  attract  to  yourself  the 
love  and  service  of  a  teacher  who  lives  in 
some  other  part  of  the  world,  but  who 
through  his  wonderful  faculties  of  see- 
ing, hearing  and  knowing  in  the  middle 
realm  is  able  to  know  you  and  your 
actions,  no  matter  how  much  space  inter- 
venes between  your  bodies.  Though  you 
may  never  have  met  him  or  have  heard 
of  his  existence,  though  to  you  he  may 
be  entirely  undreamed  of,  yet  in  this  way 
you  may  be  his  pupil  and  the  special  ob- 
.  iect  of  his  guardianship.  He  is  able  to 

The  tpecial  object  of  J 

hit  guardianship  teach  you  in  your  sleep,  to  impress  you 
with  his  suggestions  for  guidance  and 
help.  He  is  what  is  called  an  adept,  or 

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master,  or  elder  Brother  and  he  is  such  fjclu^/orces  and 

because  he  has  so  long  and  so  faithfully 

consecrated  his  soul  to  the  love  of  God 

and  his  brothers  that  all  his  forces  and 

faculties  are  attuned  to  the  one  grand 

note  of  Love,  which  in  him  finds  fitting  Finds expression  in 

. ,  ,     .  ,  PL    Love's  ministry 

expression  m  the  complete  and  perfect 
ministry  of  Love. 

To  be  great  enough  and  good  enough 
to  attract  such  a  teacher  is  worth  all 
your  efforts,  is  it  not?  And  yet,  Beloved, 
be  not  discouraged  nor  disheartened  even 
though  you  may  have  no  hint  in  any 
outer  or  even  inner  sense  that  you  are 
so  honored.  Be  assured  of  this :  as  you 
grow  strong  in  the  development  and 
power  of  your  higher  forces  you  will  be 
able  to  attract  your  own  from  those 
without. 

And  what  is  it  that  will  put  you  in  what  »  ;/  that 

,          • ,  -i      ,  i  -,  -will  put  you  in  touch 

touch  with  the  true  adept?  -with  the  true  adept? 

It  is  your  sincerity,  your  faithfulness, 
your  humility.  These  are  the  qualities 

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that  will  make  you  as  a  shining  star  in 
the  midnight  of  earthly  conditions.  You 
will  not  only  be  ministered  unto  by  the 
sweet  whisperings  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in 
your  own  soul,  you  will  not  only  be 
favored  by  the  fair  wind  of  opportunity, 
arid  led  into  the  green  pastures  of  re- 
freshment and  beauty,  but  you  will  at- 

Attractyour^   tr&ct  to  y(mrself  your  own  gpecial  human 

teacher  or  Guru  as  he  is  named  by  our 
Hindu  Brethren.  The  time  may  come 
after  years  of  holy  living  and  earnest 
seeking  after  the  Truth  on  your  part, 
that  you  will  see  him,  and  it  may  never 
come.  He  may  consider  it  expedient 
that  you  never  see  his  face  or  know  him, 
yet  often  in  your  moments  of  trial  or  of 
discouragement  he  may  be  very  near  to 
you  and  breathe  upon  your  heart  some- 
thing of  that  divine  peace  in  which  he 
himself  is  enshrined.  Or  he  may  bring 
Lwei,  friend,  'who  in  to  your  life  lovely  friends  who  will 

will  advise  and        -•     •  i  /»       .  11 

comfort  you  advise  and  comfort  you,  and  who  uncon- 

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sciously  may  be  his  messengers  to  you. 

As  you  go  on  putting  more  and  more 
of  your  own  loving  quality  and  con- 
sciousness of  God's  love  into  your  life 
you  will  grow  near,  very  near  to  the  con-  Near  to  the 
scious  presence  of  the  Great  Teacher,  the 
Christ,  and  as  you  yearn  earnestly  to  be- 
come attuned,  both  within  and  without, 
to  this  glorious  pattern  you  will  find  a 
real  communion  possible. 

The  signs  by  which  you  know  this  are 
all  in  the  intermediate  or  psychic  realm. 
There  are  many  signs  some  of  which 
Paul  describes  in  the  second  chapter  of 
Acts.  He  says:  "And  suddenly  there 
came  a  sound  from  Heaven  as  of  a  rush- 
ing mighty  wind  and  it  filled  all  of  the 
house  where  they  were  sitting  and  there 
appeared  unto  them  cloven  tongues  like 
as  of  fire  and  it  sat  upon  each  of  them 
and  they  were  all  filled  with  the  Holy 
Ghost  and  began  to  speak  with  other 
tongues  as  the  Spirit  gave  them  utter- 

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ance."  And  in  another  place  Paul  had  a 

vision  and  he  saw  a  man  "whether  in  the 

flesh  or  out  of  it  he  could  not  tell." 

These   and   many   other   examples   are 

given  in  the  scriptures  of  this  psychic 

plane,  on  which  the  senses  are  active 

when  the  soul  is  developed  to  that  point. 

By  all  this  you  will  perceive,  Beloved, 

Key  to  an  under-  the  key  to  an  understanding  of  many 

landing  ,f 


mysterious  and  wonderful.  This  is  the 
explanation  of  mediumship  and  com- 
munication with  the  spirit  world.  Study 
carefully  the  lesson  on  unseen  forces 
wherein  we  have  said  and  will  repeat 
again,  "IF  YOU  ABE  WEAK  IN  YOUB  WILL  TO 

DO  BIGHT,  SWAYED  HITHEB  AND  THITHEB 
BY  ANY  PASSING  IMPULSE  OB  OUTWABD  IN- 
FLUENCE THE  FOBCES  YOU  ATTBACT  WILL 

LEAD  YOU  INTO  CONFUSION  AND  DABKNESS. ' ' 

The  attitude  of  your  . 

own  -win  attract*  These  forces  may  be  weak,  ignorant 
and  deceiving  spirits.  Beware  of  them. 
Strive  in  every  way  to  let  your  mind  be 

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as  a  temple  for  the  purest  and  holiest 
thoughts,  motives  and  emotions.  If  you 
have,  through  your  ignorance  of  the  law, 
been  weak  and  vacillating  and  have  at- 
tracted to  yourself  forces  of  this  quality, 
cut  yourself  from  their  influence  now 
and  forever.  The  only  remedy  for  dark-  ?**  o*iy  mudy 

for  darkness 

ness  is  light.  A  safeguard  from  the  "*%*' 
wild  beasts  of  the  jungle  is  light.  In 
the  same  way  you  will  find  that  the 
remedy  for  your  moral  weakness  is  the 
Light  of  wisdom;  a  deliverance  from 
vicious  and  evil  forces  is  insured  only 
by  the  strong,  active  presence  of  Active  presence  of 
spiritual  virtues.  I  wish  to  emphasize  sfiritual  *"Vf"" 
the  danger  of  lingering  in  the  state  of 
indifference  or  foolish  fear,  for  just  as 
surely  as  you,  Beloved,  give  yourself  up 
to  either  of  these  your  mind  will  be 
clouded  and  your  heart  benumbed  be- 
cause of  these  encroaching  influences 
which  assail  you  from  within  and  with- 
out. 

I   would   have   you   free   from   any- 

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thing  and  everything  which  can  make 

Free  from  e-vcryt'iinr  n       •  -.  i  •    t  i  •      i 

•which  can  hinder  you  airaid,  which  can  hinder  your 
you  spiritual  progress.  Out  with  your  fears ! 
Conquer  every  habit  of  sloth  or  indiffer- 
ence or  doubt  or  fear. 

Fill  your  heart  with  Love  and  your 
mind  with  loving  words. 

Consecrate  your  senses  to  right  uses 
both  on  the  physical  and  psychical 
planes. 

Let  your  will  as  well  as  your  motive 
be  the  guide. 

Desire  to  know  and  appreciate  only 
the  beautiful,  the  true  and  the  good. 

Let  your  sense  of  sight  see  the  beauty 
that  is  everywhere  about  in  the  physical 
world. 

Let  your  sense  of  hearing  discrim- 
inate sounds  of  harmony  and  loveliness 
and  become  responsive  to  them  only. 

In  the  same  way  cultivate  the  sense  of 
feeling,  tasting  and  smelling.  If  you  are 
able  to  do  this  on  the  physical  plane, 

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when  the  time  comes  for  the  use  of  your 
sense  on  the  psychical  plane,  you  will  be 
able  to  discriminate  there  equally  as 
wisely  and  well. 

Bead   every   sentence   of  this   lesson 
over  and  over  until  you  are  able  to  apply  umiiyou  are  abu  to 

apply  tht  luiv 

the  law  and  thus  interpret  your  own  ex- 
perience. You  will  see  that  the  remedy 
for  all  evils  lies  within  yourself  and  that 
in  the  inner  as  well  as  the  outer  world 
light  is  the  master  of  darkness. 

Let  your  light  shine.  Let  every 
faculty  and  force  of  your  being  be  turned 
to  the  good.  Be  positive  in  your  will  as 
to  what  you  want,  and  you  will  more 
quickly  and  truly  attract  it.  If  you  have 
had  dark  and  unpleasant  experiences 
through  forces  or  influences  which  are 
within  you  or  without,  take  a  resolute  Takea 
stand  and  declare  yourself  free.  You 
can  easily  do  this  when  you  realize  the 
presence  of  the  great  white  Light  within 
you  shining  even  in  the  midst  of  your 

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darkness.  This  radiates  from  your  real 
self,  the  spirit  which  is  the  child  of  God. 
Let  its  warmth  fill  your  heart  and  its 
light  your  life.  Live  in  the  continuous 
consciousness  of  Divine  Love.  Open 

Open  tvery  avenue 

every  avenue  of  your  being  so  that  it 
may  flow  forth  from  you  in  your 
thoughts  and  in  your  words  and  in  your 
actions. 

These  same  avenues  which  permit  it  to 
go  forth  to  the  world  to  bless  the  world, 
will  also  open  to  like  qualities  which  will 
return  through  them  to  bless  you.  The 
help  which  you  thus  receive  from  every- 
thing in  nature,  the  sun,  the  stars,  the 
whole  grand  universe  is  incalculable. 
The  aream  of  Love  And  SWeetest  thought  of  all,  the  stream 
of  Love  that  flows  through  your  heart 
and  out  into  the  world  is  increased  and 
deepened  by  the  many  streams  of  con- 
sciousness which  flow  into  it  from  the 
great  wise  loving  souls,  who  like  you, 
are  thus  through  love  and  loving  deeds 

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glorifying  the  Father  by  ministering  to 
His  children. 

The  pathway  from  earth  to  heaven  is 
made  by  the  white  light  of  Love.  The  The  path-way  from 

earth  to  heaven 

deliverance  from  sin,  sickness,  poverty 
and  death  is  through  the  power  of  Love. 
When  you  become  Love's  minister 
you  also  become  the  receiver  of  Love's 
gifts.  The  riches  and  beauty  and  glory 
of  God's  kingdom  are  poured  into  your 
lap.  No  good  thing  is  withheld  from 
you  because  you  have  taken  your  place 
as  master.  You  may  be  as  a  polar  star  r°u  may  beaia 

•*•  polar  star 

to  many  of  Life 's  mariners. 

Shine,  Beloved,  with  this  wondrous 
Light  that  was  never  on  land  or  sea,  yet 
which  lights  all  worlds  through  time  and 
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CHAPTER    IV 

The  Law  of  Vibration  and   the   Secret   of 
Clairvoyance 

"Each  being  or  condition  in  nature 
denotes  a  certain  state  of  vibration." 

The  body  is  like  a  wonderful  instru- 
ment, capable  of  responding  to  every 
wind  of  force  that  may  blow  upon  it,  and 
there  are  many.  These  winds  of  force 
are  called  vibrations.  In  the  material 
realm  it  is  well  known  that  sound  is  con- 
veyed to  the  ear  by  vibrations  or  waves 
in  the  atmosphere. 

Light,  the  wonder  worker  and  illumin- 
ator of  the  whole  world,  travels  upon  the 
finer  ether  at  the  rate  of  186,000  miles 
per  second;  its  waves  or  vibrations 
reaching  the  earth  atmosphere  and  the 
retina  of  the  human  eye  are  immediately 
translated  into  what  we  call  light.  It  is 

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because  of  this  marvelous  sensibility  of  ff  mar™loas  ««*• 

bility    of  mind  and 

the  mind  and  body,  that  we  are  able  to  HF 
make  use  of  the  senses  and  appropriate 
the  information  which  they  are  continu- 
ally reporting. 

You  are  so  familiar  with  the  process 
of  seeing,  hearing  and  tasting  on  the 
material  plane,  that  it  seems  very  or- 
dinary and  commonplace  to  say  that  you 
are  able  to  see  or  hear  sights  and  sounds 
immediately  around  you. 

There   are  people   and  perhaps   you  They  *«,  hear,  taste 

,  ,  ,          ,,  ,  or  J "gel  in  an  extra- 

may  be  among  them  who  irequently  see,  ordinary  -way 
hear,  taste,  or  feel  in  what  seems  an  ex- 
traordinary way.  They  report  the  see- 
ing of  places,  persons  or  conditions  that 
are  not  apparent  at  all,  even  to  the 
person  who  sits  in  the  same  room.  They 
frequently  tell  you  of  events  that  are 
taking  place  at  a  great  distance  or  they 
may  speak  of  hearing  strange  voices  in 
conversation  between  invisible  persons. 

The  faculty  of  seeing  in  this  unusual 

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manner  is  called  clairvoyance,  of  hear- 
ing, clairaudience. 

These  faculties  seem  marvelous  and 
greatly  to  be  desired,  as  they  very  fre- 
quently may  be  of  great  use  to  the  one 
,  ability  to  «e  and  possessing  them,  yet  the  ability  to  see 

hear  in  thh  way    ^  j^^  ^  ^  ^^  dependg  Wh0lly  Up- 

on  the  sensitive  organization  .and  condi- 
tion of  the  transmitting  instrument, 
mind  and  body,  consequent  upon  their  re- 
sponsiveness to  the  finer  ether.  In  order 
that  you  may  better  understand  the  pro- 
cess of  what  I  have  termed  the  winds 
of  force  or  vibrations,  and  their  cause, 
you  must  know  something  of  the  differ- 
ent conditions  prevailing  in  the  material 
AH  art  ^plained  world,  all  of  which  are  explained  accord- 

according  to  the    .  .        ,-,        *  />       •••          •« 

law  of  Oration  ^g  to  the  law  of  vibration. 

The  body  as  it  appears  to  your  eye  is 
solid  and  yet  it  is  composed  of  minute 
particles  or  atoms  which  in  their  finest 
analysis  can  be  reduced  to  what  Farra- 
day  called  spherules  of  force.  As  it  is 

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with  the  body  so  it  is  with  every  mate- 
rial thing  or  object.  It  appears  solid 
yet  in  reality  there  is  no  solidity  about 
it.  The  appearance  of  solidity  is  caused 
by  the  rapid  vibration  or  motion  which 
is  continually  going  on  in  the  ether  in- 
herent in  these  spherules  of  force. 
This  accounts  for  the  different  ap-  AH  changes  brought 

/.  -i  .  -,1       -I  about    by  the  forces 

pearances  in  form,  also  in  all  changes  continually  in  motion 

*••*.*  i  i  i  in  the  ocean  of  ether 

which  take  place  under  your  observa- 
tion; for  instance,  the  converting  of 
steam  into  water  and  water  into  ice. 
The  formation  of  snow  crystals  and 
their  disappearance  in  the  vibration  of 
heat,  the  converting  of  food  into  flesh 
and  blood. 

All  changes,  no  matter  of  what  kind 
or  into  what  condition,  are  brought 
about  by  the  great  force  and  forces 
which  are  in  continual  motion  in  the 
ocean  of  invisible  ether. 

It  was  according  to  this  law  that  the  The  Great  Force 
Great  Force  which  includes  all  forces,  luf*^ 


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and  a  name  for  another  aspect  of  which, 
is  the  Supreme  Intelligence  or  God, 
created  the  world  and  all  that  it  con- 
tains. He  thought  of  the  world,  and  His 
thinking  produced  motion  in  the  vast 
body  of  ether  which  in  the  Bible  lan- 
guage is  called  "the  face  of  the  deep." 
This -vibration  recited  This  vibration  finally  resulted  in  the 
materialization  of  His  thoughts,  and  it 
was  called  creation.  Take  your  Bible 
and  read  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis  and 
from  the  second  to  the  ninth  verses  of 
the  second  chapter,  and  you  will  have  the 
story  and  process  of  creation. 
nc  process  of  ere-  This  process  is  going  on  continually. 

ation  going  on    _  .  -      .      .  , 

continually  Every  time  you  put  a  seed  into  the 
ground  you  put  it  into  the  condition 
whereby  it  will  be  moved  upon  by  the 
,  vibrations  of  creative  force  until  its 
physical  condition  is  completely 
changed.  It  even  goes  through  what 
seems  to  be  a  process  of  death  which 
precedes  the  new  life. 

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The  law  that  holds  the  stars  in  their 
courses,  that  causes  the  life  of  the  seed 
to  manifest  in  stalk,  blossom  and  fruit, 
that    brings    forth    the    harvest,    that 
weaves  for  the  earth  all  her  beautiful 
garments,  is  the  same  law  that  creates,  The  same  lavj  that 
preserves  and  maintains  the  body.    Its  ^£27" 
origin  is  the  great  Mind  of  God,  its  pro-  tkt  My 
cess,   the  unceasing  and  multitudinous 
forms   of  motion,  its   effects,   the  uni- 
verse and  all  that  it  contains. 

In  the  same  way  that  God  created  and  rw»  «•«»«««««.< 


peopled  the  world,  and  according  to  the  "" 
same  law,  you  are  to  create  and  people 
your  world.  God  has  delegated  to  you 
the  power  of  thinking,  He  has  provided 
the  plastic  material  upon  which  your 
thoughts  are  to  act,  and  by  which  you 
are  enabled  to  change  conditions.  This 
is  the  luminous  ether.  Your  thinking 
power  is  not  separate  from  His,  indeed, 
it  is  God's  own  power,  God's  own  Intel- 
ligence which  you  use  in  every  thought, 

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in  every  action.    You  may  pervert  the 
Power,  you  may  misapprehend  or  .mis- 
use the  Intelligence,  yet  within  you  al- 
ways is  the  creative  activity. 
You  cannot  think  a  thought  of  any 

for  beauty  or  ugliness 

kind  without  sending  forth  vibrations 
of  creative  force  which  make  for  beauty 
or  ugliness  according  to  the  quality  of 
your  own  conception,  for  just  as  God 
conceived  a  perfect  idea  of  a  perfect 
world,  and  perfect  beings,  thereby  caus- 
ing them  to  appear,  so  you  conceive  the 
idea  of  either  perfect  or  imperfect  ob- 
jects or  conditions  according  to  your 
knowledge,  and  your  creation  becomes 
visible. 

time you  think      Your  mental  world  consists  of  your 
Tt&£  thought    forms,  your    memories,  your 
imaginations,  your  plans,  your  thought 
images  of  love,  kindness,  friendliness, 
helpfulness,     or     of     their     opposites, 
hatred,  anger,  fear,  etc. 
Eemember  the  law.     Beloved,  every 

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time  you  think,  you  are  sending  forth  a 
vibration  that  will  reach  other  minds 
and  will  create  the  image  of  what  you  are 
thinking  about. 

The  psychic  or  intermediate  realm  of 
which  I  spoke  in  the  last  chapter  is 
filled  with  the  mental  pictures  of  what  F>//«*  »** 


done,  what  they  are  thinking  and  doing. 
It  is  the  ability  to  see  into  this  mental 
and  psychic  world,  which  is  clairvoy- 
ance. If  you  were  born  with  a  sensitive 
bodily  organization  you  have  probably 
had  already  the  experience  of  looking 
into  this  world  of  mental  forms. 

This  means  that  your  organ  of  sight, 
the  delicate  nerve  center  in  the  brain  as 
well  as  the  physical  eye  is  so  ready  to 
respond  to  the  vibrations  in  the  mental 
and  psychic  realm,  that  a  communica- 
tion is  established  and  waves  of  ether 
communicate  through  the  eye,  a  picture  A  communication 

tstablished 

of  the  conditions  you  see. 

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You  may  look  upon  what  has  already 
transpired,  but  which  is  there  and  al- 
ways will  be  in  this  intermediate  realm. 
You  may  see  with  this  faculty  of 
clairvoyance  what  will  happen  in  the 
future;  this  means  merely  that  you  are 
Abh  to  lock  into  the  able  to  look  into  the  world  of  cause  and 

•world  of  cause  and  . 

tee  the  prophetic  pic-  see  the  prophetic  picture,  just  as  you 

turf 

look  out  at  the  sky  at  the  threatening 
clouds  and  predict  a  storm.  There  is 
nothing  supernatural  or  extraordinary 
about  this  faculty.  It  merely  signifies 
that  your  eye  is  able  to  respond  to  the 
vibration  of  the  ether  which  is  identical 
with  that  of  the  object  which  you  see. 

This   is   the   explanation  of  thought 
transference,  as  when  you  find  yourself 


know  the  Q\)]Q  to  know  the  thoughts  that  are  in 

thoughts  -which  are 

in  the  mind  the  mind  of  another  person  even  though 

of  another 

person  that  person  may  be  hundreds  of  miles 
away  from  you.  When  there  is  a  per- 
fect affinity  or  rapport  between  two  per- 
sons they  are  like  the  transmitter  and 
receiver  of  the  telegraph  instrument. 

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This  is  even  more  plainly  illustrated  by 
wireless  telegraphy  which  permits  com- 
munication without  any  visible  or  ma- 
terial means  for  carrying  the  message 
from  the  sender  to  the  receiver. 

So  there  may  be  no  visible  means  of   p  . .       ..... 

*  Positive  and  definite 

communication  between  you  and  the  per-  c~™™°"  t»™- 

»  ble  under  right  con- 

son  to  whom  you  may  send  your  thought  dt"°ns 
or  from  whom  you  may  receive  a 
thought.  Positive  and  definite  communi- 
cation is  possible  because  your  minds  re- 
spond to  the  same  vibration,  and  your 
thoughts  are  communicated  on  the 
connecting  current  in  the  ether. 

You  will  see  from  all  this  exactly  why 
you  must  be  so  true  to  your  highest  con- 
ceptions of  life,  so  just,  so  honest,  so 
loving  in  all  your  thoughts  and  motives 
that  you  will  send  forth  vibrations  that 
will  create  corresponding  conditions  in 
your  body  and  your  world. 

Every  word  in  this  lesson  is  of  the  Every  word  in  this 
greatest  importance.   You  must  not  let  '££*£ greatest 

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one  sentence  or  paragraph  go,  until  you 
have  thoroughly  studied  and  can  under- 
stand it.    Paul  said,  "The  kingdom  of 
The  remit  of  har-  God  is  righteousness,  peace,  and  joy  in 

monious  consciousness     .-.         TT    ^        n 

the  Holy  Spirit. 

What  can  be  said  that  will  make  this 
great  subject  plainer? 

You  now  know  that  it  lies  within  your 
power  to  unite  yourself  with  influences 
and  conditions  of  goodness,  truth  and 
beauty,  or  the  opposite. 

11  By  thy  thought  thou  shalt  be  justi- 
fied or  condemned,"  said  Jesus,  which 
was  only  another  way  of  saying,  IF  YOU 

THINK  GOOD  PURE  THOUGHTS  YOU  WILL  BE 
JUSTIFIED  BY  THE  VERY  CONDITIONS  IN 
YOUR  BODY  AND  ITS  ENVIRONMENTS.  I? 
YOU  THINK  THOUGHTS  OF  EVIL,  ANGER  OR 
FEAR,  YOU  WILL  BE  CONDEMNED  IN  YOUR 
BODY  AND  ITS  CONDITIONS. 

The  Duality  and  in-      Moreover,  by  your  thinking  you  are 

flutnct   of  your 

sending  vibrations  to  the  minds  of  those 
in  the  world  who  are  open  to  the  quality 

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and  influence  of  your  thoughts,  whatever 
they  may  be. 

You  well  know  how  careful  you  are 
in  the  presence  of  great  danger  to  keep 
your  voice  calm  and  send  forth  no 
thought  of  alarm  or  fear  to  your  loved 
ones,  who  without  your  caution  might 
be  dangerously  frightened. 

In  the  same  way,  knowing  that  there 
are  so  many  timid  and  fearful  souls  all 
about  you,  your  constant  effort  must  be 
to  keep  your  own  poise  of  mind  and  live  ., 

~   •  Necessary  t»  keep  your 

constantly  as  though  your  were  God's  />«'««/ w'w 
representative,  His  ministering  angel. 

By  living  in  a  state  of  sweet,  abiding 
peace  you  become  as  a  tower  of  strength 
to  those  who  feel  your  silent  influence 
although  they  may  not  know  its  source. 
In  pursuing  your  daily  journey  along 
the  highway  of  life,  have  always  as  your 
one  unceasing  aim  that  of  becoming  as  ^°ur<>«f 

T'Ti          «  i   -T?        i   •     •  n          •  unccaiinr  altt 

a  Light  set  upon  a  mil,  shining  afar  into 
the  darkness,  that  those  who  are  lost 

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and  afraid,  may  find  their  way  safely 
back  to  the  path. 

Put  you  in  .ouch  Tnis  hol7  thinking  and  living  will  put 
WM  'vSon,  y°u  in  touch  with  the  highest  vibrations 
and  you  will  then  naturally  and  harmon- 
iously develop  the  faculty  of  clairvoy- 
ance and  clairaudience  from  the  very 
highest  plane.  You  will  be  able  to  use 
them  to  some  good  purpose  and  they  will 
serve  you  well  in  helping  you  to  min- 
ister to  those  who  are  in  deep  trouble, 
who  may  need  your  good  counsel,  your 
timely  warning  and  above  all  the  name- 
irating'injiuenc^thM  less,  penetrating  influence  that  emanates 

emanates  from  your     _  . 

conucratcd  being  from  your  consecrated  being. 

Do  not  let  your  mind  wander  into  the 
highways  of  the  curious,  but  be  content 
to  live  from  day  to  day  as  the  trustful 
child,  dependent  for  all  things  upon  its 
loving  parent.  You  cannot  make  a  bet- 
ter beginning  for  the  development  of 
every  gift  which  God  has  given  you,  than 
this  simple  childlike,  trustful  living. 

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There  is  a  verse  in  the  Vedas,  the  Hindu 
Scriptures,  which  says:  "We  meditate 
on  the  glory  of  that  Being  who  has  pro- 
duced this  universe.  May  He  enlighten 
our  minds."  Beloved,  let  this  be  the 
mantram  or  prayer  that  shall  guide  you 
into  the  true  knowledge.  Take  a  certain 
time  every  evening  before  you  retire 
and  say,  "7  meditate  upon  the  glory  of 
the  Being  who  has  produced  this  uni- 
verse. May  He  enlighten  my  mind/'  Say 
it  until  you  feel  in  your  very  heart  of 
hearts  that  it  is  your  prayer. 

"One  moment  of  company  with  the 
Holy  makes  a  ship  to  cross  this  ocean 
of  life." 


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CHAPTER  V 
A  Lesson  in  Clairvoyance 

"External  sensual  perceptions  are 
necessary  to  see  sensual  things;  the  in- 
ternal sensual  perceptions  see  internal 
things." 

If  you  have  a  sensitive  organization 
and  a  child-like  mind,  you  may  cultivate 
this  wonderful  faculty  of  clear  seeing, 
and  if  you  proceed  in  the  right  way  may 
do  so  with  marked  advantage  to  yourself 
and  to  others,  but  we  warn  you,  Beloved 
YOU  aikfor  no  that  you  ask  for  no  small  thing  when  you 

small  thing 

ask  for  the  responsibility,  of  seeing  per- 
sons and  things  at  a  distance  or  of  see- 
ing things  and  conditions  that  are  or- 
dinarily hidden. 
RiKkt  or  -wrtng  tt,e      It  is  o.  responsibility  in  which  the  pos- 

in-voi-vct   great  con-  ,  •      i  •     •  j 

session  of  any  power  places  an  individ- 
ual and  much,  yes,  everything,  depends 
upon  the  honor  with  which  you  use  it,  as 

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the  right  or  wrong  use  involves  great 
consequences  to  you  as  well  as  to  those 
who  are  concerned  with  you. 
The  good  that  you  can  do  with  this  TA<  good  you  can 

immeasurable 

gift  is  immeasurable,  because  with  it 
you  may  be  able  in  many  cases  to  know 
conditions  about  your  friends  which  are 
very  important  for  them  to  understand, 
and  which  with  your  advice  may  be  , 
wisely  dealt  with.  On  the  psychic  or 
what  is  sometimes  called  the  astral 
or  the  ethereal  plane,  clairvoyance 
enables  you  to  perceive  the  presence 
of  departed  friends,  or  troubled  souls 
who  may  need  a  word  of  comfort  or 
instruction  to  free  them  from  earth 
conditions  or  attachments.  This  is 
the  kind  of  work  which  Jesus  cal- 
led the  ministry  to  the  "spirits  in 
prison."  On  the  still  more  interior  and 
exalted  plane  where  the  vibrations  are 
the  result  of  spiritual  consciousness, 
clairvoyance  reveals  the  work,  life,  and 

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powers  of  the  soul,  and  is  that  marve- 
of  unship  lous  faculty  of  seership  which  knows 
both  past  and  future,  which  perceives 
and  defines  spiritual  ideas,  and  which 
enables  him  who  possesses  it,  to  attain 
to  the  superconsciousness  of  Spirit  and 
to  say  on  every  plane  of  his  being,  "/ 
know." 

It  is  to  this  last  and  higher  plane,  Be- 
loved, you  should  aspire,  for  once  able 

to  look  from  the  heights  of  spiritual  con- 

? 

sciousness  you  will  perceive  that  all  be- 
neath, that  which  is  on  the  lower  planes 
of  consciousness,  is  illumined  from  this 
Light  above. 
nly -win      I  repeat  again  and  with  great  em- 

serite  you  on  all 

planes  phasis  aim  for  the  highest.  The  highest 
only  will  serve  you  on  all  planes,  and 
enable  you  to  interpret  the  many  myste- 
ries which  would  otherwise  confuse  and 
entangle  you. 

Many  of  you  who  read  these  pages  are 
already  developing  this  wonderful  gift, 

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but  you  do  not  know  exactly  how  to  in- 
terpret your  experiences  or  how  to  learn 
from  them.  In  this  lesson  I  will  give 
you  a  few,  simple  directions  which  will  •*/"?  "mfle 

directions 

be  most  valuable  in  helping  you  to  ae- 
velop  in  the  right  way,  but  remember  at 
all  times  that  God  your  Father  is  watch- 
ing you,  and  gives  you  strength  and 
knowledge,  moment  by  moment  if  you 
will  turn  to  Him  with  the  childlike  faith 
that  makes  you  able  to  receive  His  care. 
With  a  pure  heart  then,  set  aside  a  Fir«  ««*w&_  /»• 

clairvoyant  training 

few  weeks  if  you  wish,  for  the  develop- 
ment of  clairvoyance.  Be  whole-hearted 
and  sincere.  Be  careful  and  prayerful. 
For  that  time  at  least,  that  you  decide 
to  give  yourself  to  this  training,  make 
all  interests,  aims  and  occupations 
secondary. 

I  do  not  mean  by  this,  to  be  any 
less  faithful  to  your  regular  duties, 
but  make  this  so  important  that  no 
caller,  no  book,  no  amusement  or  trivial 

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circumstance  will  cause  you  to  deviate 
from  your  regular  and  systematic  prac- 
tice of  the  directions  given. 

See  that  all  conditions  are  as  favor- 
A  healthy  body  the  able  as  possible.    A  healthy  body,  at 

first  consideration    ,  «  _  ,. 

least,  one  free  from  nervous  disease, 
should  be  of  the  first  consideration. 
Never  undertake  any  training  of  this 
kind  if  you  are  nervously  exhausted  or 
out  of  tune. 

GENERAL  RULES. 

what  to  avoid  Eat  simple  wholesome  food,  eat  no 
meat,  greasy  food  or  rich  pastries. 
Avoid  all  stimulants,  tobacco,  etc.,  and 
even  refrain  from  tea  and  coffee,  unless 
VERY  WEAK.  Take  the  magnetic  bath 
morning  and  night,  THINK  AND  LIVE  IN 
CHASTITY.  Do  not  mingle  in  social  gath- 
erings, do  not  speak  of  your  being  in 
training  for  clairvoyance,  and  do  not  tell 
your  experiences  to  any  one.  Do  not 
Avoid  mentai  in-  argue  on  any  subject.  Avoid  mental  in- 

harmony  ,/«// 


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to  extremes  of  -emotion  such  as  anger, 
fear,  worry,  grief  or  disappointment. 
This   is   particularly   important,   be- 
cause every  emotion  or  intense  thought 

Connects  you  -wit A 

connects  you  with  the  thought  currents  thought  currents 
made  up  of  all  similar  thoughts  emanat- 
ing from  people  everywhere,  both  in  and 
out  of  the  body.  For  example,  if  you  in- 
dulge in  grief  you  are  putting  yourself 
en  rapport  with  all  other  grieving  souls. 

This    devitalizes    and    demagnetizes 
you. 

You  are  thus  thrown  off  your  balance  Be  muter  of  you 

thoughts  and  you 

and    at    the    mercy    of    any    influence  ^m  tup  your 

balance 

stronger  than  you  are.  It  is  as  though 
you  have  fallen  into  a  swift  flowing 
thought-river  in  which  the  current  bears 
you  away  from  yourself  until  you  lose 
the  power  of  self-control  and  are  borne 
down  under  the  waters,  allowing  the  cur- 
rent to  take  you  where  it  will.  This 
means  that  not  only  does  your  negative 
mood  make  you  subject  to  all  sorts  of 

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adverse  influences,  but  empowers  you  to 
bring  others  into  the  same  helpless 
state. 

The  vital  importance  of  this  knowl- 
edge cannot  be  overestimated.  This  is 

si-void  extremes  of        ,          T  .  ,  „  . . 

emotion  why  1  say  avoid  extremes  of  emotion. 
Equally  potent  is  the  injunction,  do  not 
begin,  unless  you  intend  to  go  on  with 
this  training,  at  least  for  the  time  you 
have  decided  upon. 

It  takes  a  sensitive  mind  and  body  in 
order  to  become  a  clairvoyant. 

Most  clairvoyants  without  training 
are  negative  in  their  sensitiveness;  with 
the  training  they  may  become  positive 
in  their  sensitiveness.  To  do  a  little  of 
the  training  and  that  half-heartedly 
might  make  you  sensitive  without  mak- 
ing you  positive.  This  is  why  you  must 
follow  directions  not  only  as  to  your 
exercises,  but  as  to  thinking  and  feeling 
^'tlt^reatone'in  in  order  to  keep  yourself  keyed  to  the 

your  keyboard  .  IT.  j        e>   T»     • 

of  Being  purest  tone  in  your  keyboard  of  Being. 

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BE  PRAYERFUL.  LIVE  CLOSE  TO  GOD  and 
WITH  GOD  ASKING  HIM  TO  GUIDE  and  to 
protect  you  every  step  of  the  way.  All 
this  will  put  you  into  attune  with  Him  attunth  ml 
and  His  work,  and  you  will  cause  a  re- 
sponse that  will  echo  back  from  the  uni- 
versal atmosphere  the  sweet  tones  and 
qualities  that  you  send  forth.  In  this 
way  you  make  quality  in  your  vibra- 
tions and  this  determines  the  quality  of 
the  vibrations  with  which  you  come  in 
touch,  the  quality  of  what  you  see  and 
know.  If  you  love  truth  and  speak  truth 
you  will  perceive  true  relations  and 
exact  facts  through  your  clairvoyant 
faculty.  What  you  see  can  be  relied 

1-,  i  .  ,  ,T        When  you  are  trut 

upon,  generally  speaking,  because  noth-  nothing  faix  -win 

f    i  .,,  7  ..  ..-  make  connection  -with 

ing  false  will  make  connection  with  your  your 
consciousness. 

On  the  same  principle,  the  person  who 
has  the  taste  for  liquor  might  pass 
by  a  dozen  saloons  a  day,  yet  have  no 
temptation  to  enter,  having  nothing 

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within  him  correspondent  to  the  charac- 
ter of  which  the  saloon  is  an  emblem. 
Nothing  of  its  quality  adheres  to  his 
consciousness  or  finds  affinity  with  his 
thought.  Consider  a  moment  what 
makes  real  friendship  and  you  will  bet- 
ter understand  the  law  of  attraction 
which  enables  you  to  become  the  magnet 
which  will  draw  your  quality  of  knowl- 
edge. Now  we  are  ready  for  more  spe- 
cific directions  which  should  be  practiced 
regularly  every  day. 

Rise  early  so  that  you  will  have  no 
sense  of  hurry.  The  first  waking  thought 
should  be  devotional.  Praise  is  like  a 
bugle  call  to  the  best  in  your  character 
and  intention  and  will  make  your  mind 
a  focusing  center  for  the  purest  quality 
of  thoughts.  Praise  God  for  your  bless- 
ings,  your  life,  your  gifts  and  your  op- 


call  to  the  best  in 
your  character 


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THE    MAGNETIC    BATH. 

A  quick  cold  bath  is  best,  though  you 
may  have  the  water  tepid  if  preferred. 
When  all  is  ready,  stand  perfectly  nude, 
letting  the  air  and  if  possible  the  morn- 
ing sunlight  strike  your  body.  Raise 
your  arms  above  your  head  stretching 
them  as  far  up  as  you  can,  with  arms 
and  fingers  stiff.  The  breath  having 
been  slowly  inhaled  with  the  raising  of 
the  arms,  hold  a  few  seconds  while  still 
stretching,  then  exhale,  letting  the  hands 
fall  to  the  side. 

Repeat  five  times.  After  the  last  drop 
of  the  hands,  rub  together  briskly,  put 
them  in  the  water  and  then  apply  to  the 
body.  Do  not  use  a  cloth,  brush  or  towel, 
but  the  hands  only,  which,  being  charged 
with  magnetism  completely  vivify  the 
whole  body.  The  application  of  water 
and  the  vigorous  rubbing  until  dry  with 
the  naked  hands  gives  a  magnetic  bath  Natural 

i  •    i  i  n  -i      i  "  a   healing,  rtttor- 

which  not  only  tones  up  the  whole  sys-  *//?*>•« 

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tern  at  the  time,  but  in  many  cases  when 
continuously  used  cures  most  obstinate 
forms  of  disease. 

This  magnetic  bath  may  be  taken  at 
night  before  retiring  without  the  water. 
It  must  be   taken   quickly,   the   whole 
process  not  taking  more  than  five  min- 
ity  essential  to  utes.    The  rapidity  is  essential  to  the 

the    taking    in    and  . 

equalling  of  tht  taking  in  and  equalizing  of  the  magnetic 

magnetic  forcet 

forces. 

After  the  bath,  and  while  you  are 
dressing,  audibly  repeat  these  words 
which  give  direction  and  balance  to  the 
mind.  "1  am  in  the  center  of  the  Life 
which  is  perfect  and  the  Intelligence 
which  knows  all  things.  I  desire  to  use 
all  my  powers  for  the  glory  of  God  and 
For  the  glory  Of  God  the  benefit  of  mankind.  With  this  mo- 

and  tht  benefit  of 

•unkind  ftve  /  wi$h  to  be  taught,  trained  and  di- 
rected in  the  use  of  the  faculty  of  clair- 
voyance." 

You  will  quickly  learn  this,  and  dur- 
ing the  making  of  your  toilet,  be  able  to 

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repeat  it  many  times.  You  will  see  to  it 
that  there  is  a  free  circulation  of  air  in 
the  room ;  it  would  be  well  for  a  few  mo- 

.  iit          Open  the  ivindoivs  and 

ments,  to  open  the  windows  and  let  the  iet  the  -wind  *%•«/> 

through 

wind  sweep  through  thoroughly.   When 
all  is  ready,  sit  down  in  a  chair  facing 
the  east  holding  your  spine  erect  so  that 
it  does  not  touch  the  chair.  Take  several . 
long  deep  breaths,  then  either  mentally  &»'>•<*/««* 

and  blessing 

or  audibly  send  forth  a  thought  of  love 
and  blessing  to  all  the  world,  directing  it 
to  the  east,  south,  west  and  north.  You 
will  now  have  put  your  body,  mind  and 
soul  into  harmony  with  the  universe.  Body,  Mind  and  &«/ 

in  harmony  -with 

Your  next  step  is  the  definite  exercise  the  uni-vme 
of  your  perceptive  faculties. 

Take  some  small  object  and  place  it 
within  a  range  of  five  or  six  feet  of  your 
eyes ;  a  glass  paper  weight  or  a  glass  of 
water  is  good.  Look  at  it  steadily  for 
a  few  moments,  perhaps  five,  then  close 
your  eyes  and  see  it  mentally.  Do  not 
see  anything  else  and  continue  looking 

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mentally  at  this   same   object  for  ten 
minutes. 

You  may  find  it  difficult  at  first,  but 
never  mind;  every  time  the  mind  wan- 
ders, bring  it  back  and  compel  it  to  see 
the  object.  Put  your  undivided  will, 
effort,  and  attention  upon  this  mental 
object.  When  your  ten  minutes  are  up 
your  special  work  is  over  for  the  morn- 
ing. Practice  this  every  day  at  the  same 
hour,  making  each  sitting  a  little  longer, 
but  never  sitting  more  than  twenty  min- 
utes. 

Regularity  is  -very  Be  regular  in  your  time  of  practice. 
This  is  very  important.  During  the  day 
often  repeat  the  visualizing  or  the  recall 
of  the  object  to  your  mental  view.  This 
will  assist  the  memory,  also  develop 
your  capacity  to  concentrate.  At  night 
about  twilight,  if  possible  go  to  your 
room,  put  yourself  in  the  quiet  state  and 
repeat  the  words  of  the  morning.  ' '  I  am 
in  the  center,  etc."  Then  sit  in  concen- 

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tration  as  in  the  morning  seeing  the  one 
object.  After  a  day  or  two  you  can  take 
another  object  if  you  wish,  but  not 
until  you  can  call  up  the  first  object 
with  great  distinctness  whenever  you  Not  umii  you  can  can 

up  the  object  with 
deSire   tO   dO   SO.  great  distinctness 

This  training  is  invaluable  in  the 
arousing  and  developing,  not  only  of 
your  perceptive  powers,  but  as  a  culti- 
vation of  accuracy  which  is  absolutely 
essential  in  the  use  of  clairvoyance.  It 
is  the  vague,  disconnected,  partial  view  Accuracy  mckvaan 

.  makes  accuracy 

of  things  which  makes  untrained  clair-  in  vision 
voyance  so  unreliable. 

AIM  FOB  DEFINITENESS  AND  CLEARNESS 
AS  WELL  AS  QUALITY. 

This  is  your  first  point  of  achieve- 
ment, that  you  be  able  to  see  an  object 
so  clearly  that  you  can  perfectly  repro-  perfectly  reproduc  it 

...  ,     ,        .    .  rrn  •        •       i"  your  mental 

duce  it  in  your  mental  vision.    This  is  vision 
the  beginning  of  the  clear  seeing  of  later 
development.  As  the  child  must  be  first 
trained  in  the  recognition  of  letters  and 

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words  before  lie  can  connect  them  into 
YOU  *tu*t  \>e  trained  sentences,  so  must  you  be  trained  in  the 

in  the  faculty 

of  ueing  faculty  of  seeing  on  the  psychic  plane 
before  you  can  make  connected  or  intel- 
ligent interpretation. 

In  the  development  of  the  expression 
of  any  gift,  method  is  indispensable,  and 
practice  imperative.   Be  patient,  perse- 
vering and  faithful. 
Puny  of  Thought,      At  the  end  of  a  week,  still  continuing 

Motive  and  Purpose  .  „  ,  .  in 

essential  to  successful  the  general  and  specific  rules,  instead  ot 

clairvoyance 

focusing  your  attention  upon  an  object 
in  your  immediate  presence  you  may 
enter  into  a  revery  which  recalls  events. 
This  of  course,  after  you  have  taken 
your  bath,  treatment,  etc.  To  mentally 
recall  events,  go  back  in  memory  and 
picture  forth  with  every  detail  outlined, 
some  scene  of  the  past  with  its  attend- 
ant persons,  surroundings,  etc.  Choose 
an  event  which  at  the  time  of  its  occur- 
rence was  vividly  impressed  upon  your 
Ut  '*b"™eaZ  mind.  Let  it  be  something  pleasant,  with 

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details  of  a  particularly  happy  nature, 
and  linger  upon  it,  until  the  whole  scene 
and  its  connections  are  brought  clearly 
before  your  mental  vision.  Repeat  the 
process  of  recall  at  a  number  of  sittings,  Practice  frequently 
then  take  other  scenes  or  persons  you 
have  seen.  Practise  the  recall  frequent- 
ly through  the  day.  Insist  upon  seeing 
every  detail  with  perfect  accuracy. 

During  your  sittings  you  may  see 
flashes  of  color  or  stars  or  symbols  of 
various  kinds.  This  indicates  that  you  This  tndicatetyou  an 

becoming  attuned  to 

are  becoming  attuned  to  the  etheric  vi-  «/*«*  vitrationt 
brations  which  enable  you  to  see  on  the 
psychic  plane. 

If  you  have  a  friend  in  perfect  sym- 
pathy with  you,  try  at  times  to  see  what 
he  is  doing  at  a  stated  time,  and  let  him 
report  the  fact  that  would  corroborate 
or  refute  your  experience.  In  all  the  ex- 
ercises be  firm  but  relaxed  mentally,  se  frm  but  relaxed 
having  no  tension  in  any  way,  neither 
being  anxious  nor  impatient. 

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Continue  the  twice  daily  exercises  al- 
ways before  a  meal,  but  never  imme- 
diately after. 

After  the  usual  time  spent  in  concen- 
tration upon  the  object  or  thought,  take 
ten  or  fifteen  minutes  for  revery  with 
the  mind  calmly  expectant,  awaiting  ex- 
perience. After  you  have  learned  to 
center  your  forcei  center  your  forces  without  becoming 
intense,  you  will  occasionally  see 
glimpses  of  scenery,  persons  or  objects, 
often  when  you  are  not  thinking  of  it. 
DO  not  bt  dixouraged  j)o  not  frQ  discouraged,  even  if  you  see 

no  signs.  There  is  a  great  difference  in 
people.  Some,  like  flowers,  bloom  more 
quickly  than  others. 

After  a  time  you  may  find  yourself 

becoming  unusually  sensitive  to  sights, 

sounds,   smells,   conditions   or   persons. 

Semiti-venets  a  phate  This  sensitiveness  is  a  phase  of  your 

of  your  development 

development.     So  is  your  perfect  mas- 
tery of  yourself.    Be  patient. 
.Continue  to  realize  that  God  is  your 

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Teacher,  Guide  and  Protector.  Keep  al- 
ways  in  prayerful  communion  with  Him. 
Live  calmly  and  happily  with  your 
thought  and  desire  intent  upon  the  best. 
This  is  your  protection. 

Consecrate  yourself  daily  and  hourly 
that  you  may  be  pure  in  motive,  thought 
and  deed.  This  is  the  only  basis  on 
which  you  should  attempt  to  develop  any 
phases  of  this  remarkable  gift  of  clair- 
voyance. 

HERE  ARE  THREE  THINGS  TO  BE  REMEM 
BERED.  FIRST,  ALWAYS  SIT  ALONE.  SEC- 
OND, ALWAYS  BELIEVE  IN  RESULTS.  SAY 
NOTHING  OF  WHAT  YOU  ARE  DOING,  AND 
NEVER  TELL  YOUR  EXPERIENCES  TO  UNSYM- 
PATHETIC PERSONS. 

More  and  more  as  you  go  on,  covet 
earnestly  the  best  gifts.  Ask  for  that 
quality  in  your  character  which  will 
make  vou  strong  and  masterful  under  all  *""*  a"d.maiterful 

under  all  ctrcum- 

circumstances.  Use  this  clear  seeing  fac- 
ulty  for  the  discerning  of  spiritual 

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J17/£/  truths  or  for  helpful  ministry.  Never 
use  it  except  for  the  most  exalted  pur- 
poses. Woe  unto  you  if  you  do. 

Beloved,  especially  do  I  warn  you 
to  refrain  from  very  much  discerning 
of  spirits.  The  reason  for  this  is  that 
when  a  person  lays  down  his  garment  of 
flesh  he  has  been  called  to  another  world 
en  to  learn  lessons  there  to  learn  other  lessons  and  to  enter 

and  to  enter  upon 

other  -wort  Up0n  other  work.  If  through  his  affec- 
tions and  the  yearning  of  his  friends  he 
is  called  back  to  earthly  conditions,  he 
is  thus  prevented  from  entering  upon 
those  other  opportunities  and  learning 
those  other  lessons  to  which  he  has  been 
called. 

If  you  call  him  back,  you  do  him  an 

injury,   in  preventing  his  progress   in 

the  other  life.    Therefore  refrain.    Be 

umGofsbeau-  satisfied  to  know  that  he  is  in  God's 

""  &  here  beautiful  world  there,  as  he  was  here, 

and  that  all  is  well  with  him.   Bid  him 

God-speed  and  heroically  adjust  your- 

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self  to  the  loss  of  communication  with 
him,  knowing  that  it  is  better  so,  be- 
cause it  is  for  his  good. 

Of  course,  there  may  be  times  when 
you  can  feel  the  breath  of  his  presence 
and  perhaps  see  the  beloved  form  which 
comes  as  a  sweet  reward,  for  your  un- 
selfish renunciation,  but  let  these  times 
come  unsought,  and  let  his  visit  with 
you  be  as  the  coming  of  the  summer  speak  the  -word 

.  if  comfort  or 

dawn,  full  of  peace  and  blessing.  Be  inurvtion 
ready  to  always  speak  the  word  of  com- 
fort or  instruction  to  the  spirits  in  or 
out  of  the  flesh,  and  let  your  aim  ever 
be  the  consecrated  use  of  your  gift  of 
clairvoyance. 


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CHAPTER  VI 

Symbols   and    Visions    and    How    to 
Interpret    Them 

"Forms  are  symbols  of  life  or 
thought.  Truth  is  revealed  through 
forms." 

When  the  sense  of  clairvoyance  be- 
gins to  develop,  you  will  often  see  pecu- 
liar symbols  around  a  person  of  whom 
you  are  thinking,  or  when  you  are  not 
thinking  of  anyone,  there  may  suddenly 
flash  into  your  mind  the  picture  of  a 
cross  or  a  circle  or  a  beautiful  star. 
These  and  similar  pictures  are  called 
symbols.  These  I  have  mentioned  par- 
ticularly, are  the  figures  which  have 
been  used  through  all  the  ages  as  signi- 
fying principles  of  truth,  and  the  fact 
of  your  seeing  them  is  a  proof  that  you 

Signifying  principlet 

of  truth  are  bemg  thus  taught  concerning  truth. 
The   circle   is   a   symbol   of  eternity 

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which  has  no  beginning  and  no  ending, 
and  when  seen  in  this  way  would  natu- 
rally signify  some  phase  of  that  eternal 
truth  in  which  you  are  interested.  The 
five-pointed  star  is  a  symbol  of  the  nat- 
ural man  in  a  state  of  aspiration,  al- 
though it  has  many  significations. 

With  the  single  point  upward  it  also 
signifies  the  operation  of  the  good 
forces,  and  therefore  indicates  harmony 
with  the  Divine  will,  but  with  the  two 
points  pointing  upward  it  is  inverted 
good,  and  so  means  evil,  or  darkness. 

The  cross  is  a  symbol  of  crucifixion 
and  of  victory.  It  is  the  crucifixion  of 
the  natural,  but  the  victory  of  the  spirit- 
ual. 

You  must  always  turn  the  light  of  the  TU™  the  light  of 

the   Spirit  upon 

spirit,    which   is   your   Divine   wisdom,  these  symbols 
upon  these  symbols,  or  whatever  sym- 
bols you  may  happen  to  see,   (all  pic- 
tures are,  in  a  sense,  symbols)  and  en- 
deavor to  get  their  spiritual  meaning. 


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For  instance,  suppose  you  were  in  a 
state  of  depression,  or  despondency; 
you  might  see  a  cross.  Now  if  you  only 
read  from  the  dark,  or  the  negative  side, 
you  would  say  that  that  meant  you 
would  have  to  suffer,  that  you  had  some- 
thing to  bear,  but  if  you  look  for  the 
other  side,  you  will  declare  that  it  means 
a  victory.  By  your  word  of  faith  you 

Declare    that    it 

means  a -victory  bring  to  pass  the  reality  of  what  you 
see. 

In  the  seeing  of  any  symbol  you  will 
notice  there  are  two  ways  of  interpreta- 
tion.  If  you  are  able  to  interpret  from 
the  standpoint  of  principle,  rather  than 
A*  for  the -wisdom  personality,  you  will   see  the  positive 
y  pmt  good  of  the  symbol,  and  so  get  the  good 
out  of  it.  If  you  can  keep  in  mind  at  all 
times  that  the  Holy  Spirit,  who  is  to 
guide  you  into  all  truth  is  teaching  you 
by  means  of  these  symbols  or  pictures, 
and  will  ask  for  the  wisdom  of  the  Holy 
~^w££S  Spirit  to  interpret  them  for  you,  you 

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will  never  need  to  fear  any  confusion,  or 
be  undecided  as  to  what  they  mean. 

I    have    already    told    you    that    the  Th,  infinite  spirit  ac- 

commodatti  itself  to 

Spirit  accommodates  itself  to  your  finite  J/our  human  mind 
or  human  mind  and  teaches  you  in  ex- 
actly the  way  that  you  can  best  under- 
stand.  So  it  may  show  you  pictures. 

If  you  are  living  according  to  the 
light  of  the  Spirit  and  believe  in  the 
knowledge  of  the  Spirit  to  guide  you,  The  interpretation 

•will  come  with 

the  interpretation  will  come  with  the  the  see'ni 
seeing. 

A  certain  lady  who  was  in  deep 
trouble,  but  who  was  very  faithful  in 
following  what  she  believed  to  be  this 
true  Guide,  in  the  midst  of  her  perplex- 
ity, sat  down  to  ask  for  help.  While  she 
waited,  there  suddenly  appeared  before 
her  mental  vision  a  brilliant  light,  white 
and  glorious.  Even  when  she  opened  her 
eyes  she  could  still  see  this  light.  Clos-  she  could  ,tni  M 
ing  them  she  waited  to  see  what  would 
come  next.  Presently  out  of  the  dark- 

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ness  came  a  white  robed  figure.  As  it 
drew  near  to  her  she  recognized  the  face 
of  Jesus.  He  came  close,  and  looking  at 
her  in  a  reproachful  manner,  said :  *  *  Did 
I  not  say  unto  thee,  'Lo!  I  am  with  thee 

Lc!  I  am  lulth 

tkce  a/way    alwttt/. ' 

Then  the  light  and  the  figure  van- 
ished, but  her  heart  was  comforted. 
Was  this  not  a  symbol  which  appeared 
to  her  childlike  mind  to  reassure  her  of 
the  presence  and  power  of  the  saving 
Christ?  Because  she  lived  so  close  to 
God  she  had  the  vision.  Because  she 
lived  so  close,  she  was  able  to  get  the 
interpretation  of  it.  It  pleased  and 
comforted  her  beyond  measure.  It  gave 
her  courage  to  go  on  trying  to  do  her 
full  duty  and  to  see  the  light  on  all  sides. 
AII  thingt  under  the  Another  time  a  mother,  who  was 

guidance  of  God 

living  constantly  in  the  faith  that 
all  things  were  under  the  guidance  of 
God,  and  who  believed  very  strongly  in 
the  spirit  that  never  dies,  was  put  to  the 

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test  by  the  sickness  of  her  only  child,  a 
boy  of  eight  years.  He  had  met  with  an 
accident  and  was  brought  home  on  a 
stretcher.  She  sat  down  beside  him  to 
give  him  healing  treatment  and  to  put 
him  in  God's  care. 

Suddenly  before  her  eyes  appeared  a 
symbol. 

What  do  you  suppose  it  was  ?  A  coffin. 

At  the  same  time  that  she  looked  upon 
this,  she  heard  a  bell  tolling  as  for  a 
funeral.  Instantly  she  spoke  the  words 
that  are  true  always  of  the  spirit.  She 
said,  "I,  as  spirit,  see  no  death.  This, 
therefore,  is  not  a  symbol  of  death.  My  He » !/>/>//,•  he  u 
boy  is  spirit;  he  lives,  and  he  will  live. 
This  is  but  a  symbol  of  the  death  of  the 
old  conditions;  as  such  I  accept  it.  The 
old  conditions  are  dead  and  this  is  the 
symbol  of  a  new  life." 

The  more  she  thought  of  these  words, 
the  more  strongly  she  believed  them, 
and  gradually  as  she  spoke  these  strong, 

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The  ttrtng  Flowing        ?  -  n    ,-, 

•words  of  the  spirit  glowing  words  of  the  spirit,  the  casket 
was  taken  out  of  her  sight,  and  in  its 
place  came  beautiful  flowers  growing 
fair  and  lovely  as  though  upon  the 
material  earth.  These,  she  interpreted 
symbol*  *f  the  ^  gy^o^  Of  foe  true  life.  After  half 

true  ttjC 

an  hour  of  this  kind  of  experience,  with 
her  heart  reassured  and  her  soul 
strengthened  by  her  acknowledgement 
of  the  spiritual  truth,  and  with  the  great 
joy  of  her  victory  over  fear,  she  found 
the  boy  much  better;  and  that  was  the 
beginning  of  his  perfect  recovery. 

You  see  now  what  I  mean  by  turn- 
ing the  light  of  the  Spirit  upon  these 
pictures  or  visions.  If  you  are  afraid, 
or  yield  yourself  to  the  suggestions  of 
fear  when  you  look  upon  a  dark  picture, 
you  will  make  conditions  worse,  but  if, 
speak  word,  that  are  on  the  contrary,  you  begin  to  speak  the 
s?irtt  wor(jg  ^at  are  true  of  spirit  and  speak 
them  until  you  feel  and  thrill  with  the 
truth  of  them,  you  will  have  conquered 
both  yourself  and  the  condition. 

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The  seeing  of  such  pictures  as  I  have 
described  is  the  faculty  of  seeing  sym- 
bols which  are  thrown  into  your  mental- 
ity in  order  that  you  may  gain  some  In °rder 'h*y° 

gain  some  help 

help  or  lesson  from  them  by  keeping 
yourself  in  touch  with  the  Holy  Spirit 
believing  it  will  answer  you,  and  that  the 
interpretation  will  be  given. 

"With  this  clairvoyant  faculty,  there- 
fore, you  can  see  into  the  psychic  realm 
around  and  about  you  and  will  often  see 
symbols  that  refer  to  general  events  or 
conditions,  or  that  have  some  special 
reference  to  the  persons  of  whom  you 
are  thinking,  or  with  whom  you  are  in 
contact. 

Sometimes  you  will  see  a  person  en-  Jgfap*0/ 

his  aura 

sphered  in  a  cloud  of  different  colors. 
This  is  a  glimpse  of  his  aura,  which  may 
be  of  many  colors  or  of  one  principal 
color.  You  do  not  need  to  inquire 
especially  into  what  it  means  unless 
there  is  some  reason  for  you  to  know,  in 

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which  case  ask  the  Spirit  to  reveal  it  to 
t  with  the  y011    always   with   the   motive  in  your 

right  motive    " 

heart  of  doing  good  to  the  person  and 
for  his  or  her  benefit  and  to  make  use  of 
the  knowledge  given. 

You  will  soon  learn  to  interpret  the 
general  signs  of  what  you  see  because 
you  will  at  once  discriminate  between 
the  good  and  the  evil. 

For  example,  you  may  see  about  a 

person  a  storm.    This  indicates  that  he 

is  to  pass  through  some  kind  of  a  crisis. 

Help  him  to  make  You  can  help  him  to  confront  it  and  to 

/*  a  benefit 

make  it  a  benefit  instead  of  a  disaster, 
by  declaring  for  him  and  with  him  the 
truth;  by  saying  for  him  no  storm 
can  affect  his  spirit,  no  condition  in  his 
environment  can  make  him  afraid,  be- 
cause he  is  spirit;  as  spirit  he  is  perfect, 
Abie  to  come  out  of  and  theref  ore  able  to  come  out  of  every 

the  experience  a 

conqueror  experience  a  conqueror,  more  than  ever 
blessed  and  capable  of  blessing. 
You    may    at    times    have    definite 

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visions  of  what  is  to  come  to  you  or 
someone  in  whom  you  are  interested. 
Never  give  yourself  to  the  thought  that  Never  allow  the 

thought  that  you  can- 

you    cannot    understand.     Never    allow  »<*  understand  what 

you  tet 

yourself  to  be  carried  away  by  curiosity 
or  depressed  by  fear.  Remember,  no 
matter  what  you  see,  your  knowledge  of 
the  spirit,  your  faith  in  the  spirit  will 
enable  you  to  turn  the  vision  to  good,  to 
make  it  beneficent,  and  not  disastrous. 
I  have  spoken  this  about  symbols 
and  visions  because  I  know  that  many 
are  beginning  to  develop  the  senses  of 
sight  and  hearing  on  the  psychic  plane  Beginning  to  Je 

tight  and  hearing 

exactly  as  they  would  on  the  physical 
plane. 

If  what  you  see  is  good  and  beauti- 
ful, take  it  as  an  inspiration,  by 
trying  to  understand  what  it  means; 
appropriate  what  it  gives  you  and  then 
forget  it,  or  just  pass  it  by;  do  not  med- 
dle with  it. 

For  no  matter  how  beautiful  it  is,  you 

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cannot  afford  to  delay,  or  waste  your 
time  with  it. 

In  fact  yon  mnst  learn  to  deal  with 

the   psychic   realm   exactly  as  you  do 

Deal  with  psychic  with  the  physical.  In  the  physical  world 

realm    txact'y    at 

with  the  physical  you  would  not  think  of  stopping  if  you 
had  a  pressing  duty  to  perform,  no  mat- 
ter what  your  eyes  might  see  or  your 
ears  hear ;  you  would  straightway  go  on 
your  way  and  do  it,  enjoying  in  the 
meantime  the  pleasant  sights  and  con- 
TOU  -would  straight-  ditions  around  you  whether  the  beauty 

iv^y  go  on  your  •way 

of  the  landscape,  the  wonder  of  the  sky 
or  whatever  came  before  you.  But 
you  would  not  stop  and  wonder  what 
this  meant  or  what  that  meant,  no  mat- 
ter how  strange  or  even  fascinating  it 
might  be. 

In  the  same  way  you  are  to  deal  with 
all   these   sights   and   sounds   and   con- 
ditions that  you  meet  on  this  mental  and 
Nothing  but  objtct  psychic  plane.     They  are  nothing  but 

tenons 

object  lessons,  and  by  looking  at  their 

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source,  at  the  same  time  keeping  your  Keeping  your 

mind  open 

mind  open  to  the  wisdom  of  the  Spirit 
in  interpreting  them,  you  can  quickly 
discriminate  what  will  be  helpful  and 
what  not ;  then  you  will  be  able  to  go  on 
your  way,  taking  the  good  and  leaving 
the  other. 

Here,  as  you  are  just  beginning  to 
develop  the  understanding  of  the  gifts 
that    God    has    given    you,    you    must 
realize  that  according  to  your  readiness  -%%**„  lary°ur 
to  learn  each  lesson  as  it  comes  to  you  tttekhmm 
will  be  the  quickness  of  your  promotion 
into  another  class.    It  is  not  desirable 
to  linger. 

For  this  reason  it  is  well  for  you 
to  be  content,  even  without  clairvoy- 
ance, until  you  are  so  firmly  estab- 
lished in  your  spiritual  life  that  you 
will  be  able  to  make  use  of  the  psychic 

So  firmly  established 

sight  in  such  a  way  as  to  be  benefitted  »»><«/•*/>»>/ w//^ 
by  it  rather  than  harmed. 

There  are  many  people  in  ignorance 

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of  the  significance  of  the  unseen  realm 
today  because  they  do  not  understand 
how  to  meet  and  deal  with  these  exper- 
iences on  the  psychic  plane.  They  see 
symbols  and  visions  but  do  not  know 
how  to  interpret  them  or  where  to  place 
them. 

At  present  this  world  is  receiving  a 

great  impetus  in  the  development  of  the 

vtry  necessary  to  un-  psychic  gifts,  and  it  is  very  necessary  to 

der stand  psychic  gifts    r    * 

understand  how  to  master  them  instead 
of  being  mastered  by  them. 

Until  you  have  a  strong,  firm  hold  of 

the  spiritual  truth  and  through  it  can 

attain  unto  spiritual  living,  it  is  not  safe 

it  is  not  safe  to  daily  for  you  to   dally  with  psychic  exper- 

iviih    psychic    .  . 

expended  lences.     You  are  too  ignorant  and  too 
negative. 

You  can  very  well  understand  how  it 
would  be  to  send  a  little  child  out  into 
the  street  where  there  were  all  kinds  of 
sights  and  objects.  The  child,  although 
having  eyes  to  see,  and  ears  to  hear,  but 

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not  having  judgment,  would  be  terrified 

and  in  great  danger.    Just  as  you  would  7uit  asy»"  ™u!* 

protect  a  little  child 

protect  your  little  child,  you  must  pro- 
tect yourself.  The  moment  you  have  the 
beginning  of  the  clairvoyant  sight  or 
find  yourself  seeing  visions,  that  moment 
you  must  pray  most  earnestly  for  the 
baptism  of  the  Spirit,  which  shall 
give  you  clear,  keen  judgment,  and  the 
power  of  discriminating  as  to  what  is 
good  and  what  is  not  good. 
You  must  live  very  close  to  God,  trust-  r«  «««  n™  -very 

close  to  God 

mg  yourself  to  be  guided  and  informed 
at  every  step  of  the  way  in  this  grave 
matter.  Jesus  emphasized  the  impor- 
tance of  this, 'when  He  said:  "Seek  ye 
first  the  Kingdom  of  God  and  His  right- 
eousness and  all  else  shall  be  added." 
This  really  is  the  only  way  to  come 
into  your  inheritance;  when  you  truly 
desire  to  know  God,  and  to  live  as  He 
would  have  you  live,  be  assured  you  will  n«  -win  be  dev 

and  guided 

be  developed  and  guided  in  the  use  of 

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all  your  great  privileges  and  spiritual 
gifts. 

ONE  THING  ABOVE  ALL  OTHEBS  PBAY  FOE  J 
THAT  IS  SPIKITUAL  JUDGMENT.  WlTH  THIS, 
YOU  NEED  BE  AFBAID  OF  NOTHING ;  YOU  WILL 
BE  ABLE  TO  KNOW  EXACTLY  WHEKE  TO  PLACE 
EVERY  EXPERIENCE  AND  QUICKLY  LEARN 
THE  LESSON  WHICH  IT  BRINGS.  Il  IS  TRUE 
YOU  OUGHT  TO  DEVELOP  EVERY  FACULTY 
AND  MAKE  USE  OF  EVERY  GIFT  GOD  HAS 
GIVEN,  YET  IT  MUST  NOT  BE  BY  A  HOTBED 
PROCESS.  IT  MUST  BE  THE  CALM,  DAY  BY 
DAY  UNFOLDMENT  THAT  WE  SEE  IN  THE 
GROWTH  OF  THE  CHILD.  IT  MUST  BE  THE 
GROWTH  WITHOUT  STRAINING  OR  STRIVING, 
WITHOUT  FEARING  OR  FLINCHING.  IN  THE 
FULLNESS  OF  TIME  EVERY  GOOD  THING  WILL 
FLOWER  FORTH  IN  ITS  PERFECTION  ON 
EVERY  PLANE  OF  BEING.  THEN  THERE  WILL 
BE  MATURITY  AND  THE  BLOOMING  FORTH  OF 
THE  POWERS  OF  THE  SPIRIT. 


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"And  like  the  ocean,  day  by  day  receiv- 
ing 

Floods  from  all  lands,  which  never  over- 
flows; 

Its  boundary-line  not  leaping,  and  not 
leaving, 

Fed  by  the  rivers,  but  unswelled  by 
those ; — 

So  is  the  perfect  one !  to  his  soul 's  ocean 

The  world  of  sense  pours  streams  of 
witchery ; 

They  leave  him  as  they  find,  without 
commotion, 

Taking  their  tribute,  but  remaining  sea." 

Herein,  Beloved,  will  you  find  the 
hint  of  that  perfection  -toward  which 
your  heart  yearns. 


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CHAPTER  VII 

Concentration  a  Means  of    Mind   Training. 

"This  one  thing  I  do." — Paul. 

"Let  thine  eyes  look  right  on,  and  let 
thine  eyelids  look  straight  before  thee. 
Turn  not  to  the  right  hand  nor  to  the 
left." — Proverbs. 

Having  discovered  the  great  powers 
and  possibilities  stored  away  in  your 
being,  the  next  question  is  how  to 
develop  and  use  them.  The  first  step 
in  attaining  this  end  lies  in  the  control 
control  of  of  the  mind  and  the  direction  of 

the  mind 

thought. 

The  ordinary  person  not  knowing  or 
realizing  the  great  power  and  scope  of 
thought  would  say  that  he  could  not  con- 
trol his  thinking,  that  that  is  entirely 
involuntary. 

Doubtless  you  have  said  this  same 
thing  and  yet  if  you  will  stop  and  think 

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about  it,  you  will  realize  that  whatever 
you  have  done  in  your  life  that  is  worth 
while  has  been  done  as  a  result  of  a 
.steady  purpose  and  the  right  kind  of 
thinking  towards  its  accomplishment. 
Even  in  the  most  trifling  matters  you  TOU  know  the -value 

,  ,,  ,  „  , ,   .  .,  -,.  of  mental  steadiness 

know  the  value  of  this  mental  steadiness.  " 

It  is  as  necessary  to  have  a  fixed  pur- 
pose in  regard  to  the  use  of  one 's  facul- 
ties towards  a  given  end  as  it  is  to  have 
the  end  in  view. 
Your  body,  your  senses,  your  facul-  The  implements  -witA 

•which  you  are 

ties  of  mind  and  soul  are  the  implements  e 
with  which  you  are  equipped  and  by 
which  you  can  build  that  most  wonder- 
ful of  all  structures  the  mind  of  man 
can  conceive  of — the  structure  of  char- 
acter. 

The  man  or  the  woman  of  character 
is  the  one  who  has  made  something  of 
himself  through  the  use  of  these  imple- 
ments. 

The  well  rounded  and  powerful  char- 

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acter    is    an    influence    in    the    world, 

a  power  going  forth  and  entering  into 

works  for  the  betterment  of  humanity. 

A  po-wer  gomg  forth  j^  jg  the  crowning  glory  of  God's  handi- 

for  the  betterment 

of  humanity  W0rk  and  man's  achievement,  for  it  is 
the  combination  of  the  Divine  and  the 
human.  It  stands  forth  in  the  world  as 
a  representative  and  ambassador  from 
heaven  itself. 

Y™  contain  the  post-  You,  as  you  are  this  moment,  contain 
m*  character  the  possibilities  of  this  God-like  char- 
acter. As  the  offspring  of  God,  you  are 
spirit.  The  lower  or  human  aspect  of 
Spirit  is  soul.  This  is  the  seat  of 
emotions  which,  translated  into  thoughts, 
are  formulated  in  the  mind  and 
expressed  through  the  body.  The  mind 
is  the  connecting  link  between  soul  and 
Mind  the  c^nect.  body  and  should  be  the  guide  and  mas- 
ter jof  the  body. 

You,  spirit — soul,  must,  therefore, 
see  that  the  mind  not  only  selects  and 
formulates  the  right  kind  of  thoughts, 

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but  that  it  absolutely  refuses  to  hold 
or    express    any    other    kind.      As    a 
beginning    in    this    practice    of    mind- 
control  you  must,  therefore,  resolutely 
turn  out  and  shut  the  door  upon  any  2" 
thoughts  which  are  detrimental  to  the  m">tal  ">°uzhti 
happiness  of  the  soul  or  the  welfare  of 
the  body. 

The  great  importance  of  this  was 
explained  in  the  previous  chapter. 
Never  for  one  moment  must  you  lose 
sight  of  the  fact  that  the  forces  within 
and  without,  be  they  good  or  evil,  are 
'dependent  upon  your  thoughts  for  their  Dependent  upon  your 

thoughts  for  their 

power. 

The  moment  you  discriminate  as 
to  the  right  kind  of  thought  and  decide 
upon  the  holding  to  that  kind  only, 
all  the  angelic  forces  in  your  soul  are  ike  an 
quickened  into  activity  and  become 
magnetically  charged  to  attract  their 
kind  of  forces  from  the  universal  realm. 

The  highest  kind  of  thinking  is  from 

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the  spiritual  side  of  your  being.    Pause 
a  moment  and  consider  what  naturally 
turdiy  be-  belongs  to  the  spirit.   Is  it  not  all  that 

long  i  to  the  sfirit 

is  true,  holy,  just,  honorable  and  alto- 
gether lovely? 

Nothing  that  is  evil  or  dark  can  come 
from  God,  and  the  spirit  is  the  seed  of 
God.  Having  this  seed  which  is  your 
very  being,  you  have  all  the  attributes 
of  God.  When  you  think  about  yourself, 
then,  you  should  think  from  the  stand- 
point of  Spirit  which  is  the  standpoint 

The  ttandpoint  of 

tht  Unchangeable  of  ^Q  Unchangeable,  the  Unlimited,  the 


Perfect. 

When  you  say  "I"  it  should  be  with 
the  thought  of  what  you  are  as  spirit. 
As  spirit  you  are  already  whole,  wise 
and  perfect. 

That  side  of  your  being  which  I  spoke 
of  in  the  first  chapter  as  your  negative 
or  human  side  is  over-shadowed  by  the 
earth  and  earth  conditions,  and  presents 
very  often  the  most  contrary  aspects  to 

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that  of  the  spirit.  You  may  wonder  why 
then  it  seems  to  have  so  much  more 
power  than  the  spirit.  Because,  accept-  *•»&*<***  neg 

tide  more  power 

ing  appearances  as  authority  you  give 
it  more  power.  You  question  why  you 
identify  the  "I"  with  the  body.  Simply 
because  your  consciousness  is  attached 
to  the  body  rather  than  the  spirit. 

The  consciousness  is  like  a  flowing 
stream,  every  moment  changing  and 
carrying  in  its  current,  thoughts  which 
originate  in  the  shadow  of  the  earthly 
conditions  and  imperfections,  or  in  the 
light  and  truth  of  the  spirit. 

It  is  for  you,  the  real  master,  to  decide  //  is  for  you 

to  decide 

whether  the  consciousness  shall  cling  to 
the  earth,  and  gather  from  the  earth ;  or 
to  the  spirit  and  gather  from  the  spirit. 
This  is  the  object  you  now  have  in 
view;  namely,  the  control  of  your  Control  of  your 

thoughts 

thoughts.  One  of  the  methods  which  is 
most  effectual  and  which  must  be  prac- 
ticed faithfully  in  order  to  obtain  the 

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intending  of  ail  best    results,    is    called    concentration. 

forces  to  the  tnd 

desired  Concentration  of  purpose  is  an  intend- 
ing of  all  forces,  faculties  and  powers 
to  the  end  desired,  and  is  the  underlying 
motive  of  the  mind.  Concentration  of 
attention  is  an  intending  or  turning  of 
consciousness  upon  a  certain  object  or 
idea  for  a  definite  or  specific  time. 
nu  need  both  You  need  both. 

The  very  fact  that  you  decide  to  make 
the  most  of  your  self  will,  if  you  perse- 
vere, prove  that  you  have  concentrated 
upon  that  end.  The  next  step  is  to  decide 
not  only  that  you  have  time  but  that  you 
will  take  time  to  concentrate  your  atten- 
Taketimeto  tion  upon  the  exercises  that  will  be 

concentrate       .  »          4    *i  >• 

given  you  tor  daily  practice. 

In  this  as  in  every  other  work  you 
must  be  faithful  if  you  wish  to  be  suc- 
cessful. 

This  is  absolutely  imperative,  as  much 
so  as  it  is  necessary  for  your  child 
to  go  to  school  every  day  in  order 

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to  learn  his  lessons  and  obtain  his  edu- 
cation. To  go  to  school  at  9  o'clock  one 
day,  at  11  o'clock  another  day,  3  o'clock 
the  next,  and  then  skip  two  or  three  days, 
would  insure  his  failure  as  a  scholar, 
would  it  not? 

This  may  give  you  an  idea  of  the  ne-  N""»y  Ofr<£ular 

»  tty  and  faithfulness 

cessity  of  regularity  and  faithfulness  in 
this  school  in  which  you  are  starting  out 
to  learn  the  most  important  of  all  truths, 
i  e.,  where  you  came  from,  who  you  are, 
and  what  is  your  destiny.  I  am,  there- 
fore, purposely  dwelling  upon  the  neces- 
sity of  regularity  and  constancy.  I 
want  you  to  succeed. 

If  possible  have  a  place, — either  your 
own  bedchamber,  or  better  still,  a  room 
which  you  can  set  apart  for  this  pur- 
pose,— a  place  where  you  will  not  be  in- 
terrupted,  and  in  which  you  can  be  at  • 
perfect  ease.  At  the  time  set  apart  for 
the  purpose,  (early  morning  is  the  very 
best  time),  go  there  and  begin  your  prac- 
tice. 

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At  first  five  minutes  may  be  long 
enough,  but  gradually  lengthen  the  time 
until  you  can  spend  fifteen  minutes  or 
half  an  hour.  In  a  very  few  days  you 
will  find  your  concentration  of  purpose 
and  your  power  of  concentration  of  at- 

four  power  greatly 

increased  tention  greatly  increased. 

To  begin  with,  take  a  sheet  of  white 
paper  about  six  inches  square.  On  this 
print  in  black  letters  the  word  Love  and 
below  it  Aum.  Around  these  two  words 
draw  a  circle.  Pin  the  paper  upon  the 
wall  within  easy  range  of  your  eyes. 
Then  place  a  chair  about  six  feet  from 
the  paper.  Before  seating  yourself, 
stand  erect  and  look  earnestly  at  the 
paper.  Exhale  and  inhale  the  breath 
slowly  and  thoughtfully  three  times. 
"With  each  inhalation  mentally  repeat 
the  word  "Purify"  and  with  each  exhal- 
ation the  word  "me." 

Then  sit  down  with  your  feet  squarely 
on  the  floor,  your  hands,  palms  up,  rest- 

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ing  easily  upon  your  knees,  your  spine 
straight  and  without  touching  the  back 
of  the  chair.  Look  steadily  at  the  word 
Love  at  the  same  time  realizing  that  it  Reai™ng  that  it » 

.,  _  .  ,  .    ,  the   Supreme    Love 

is  the  supreme  Love  in  which  you  are 
being  immersed.  Feel  the  all-pervading 
tenderness  of  the  Love  which  is  God. 
Imagine  that  it  is  enfolding  you,  filling 
you  and  blessing  you  in  order  that  you 
may  bless  the  world.  You  can  repeat  *#?* tht  ™rdalw 

v  £  tc*iv   fifties  ufttil  yo 

the  word  aloud  a  few  tunes  until  you  get  *« into  the  sfirit  of 

into  the  spirit  of  it.    After  two  or  three 

minutes  of  this,  let  your  eyes  rest  upon 

the  Aum  and,  still  maintaining  the  same 

position,  slowly  repeat  this  word  in  a 

low  musical  monotone.    Begin  with  the 

mouth  wide  open  pronouncing  the  "A" 

as  in  Father,  then  gradually  closing  the 

mouth  with  the  "M"  dying  away  in  a 

long-drawn  hum-m-m-m.    Do  this  seven  Unt'l y°u [eel  at  one 

•with  the  Power 

times,  then  rest  until  you  feel  at  one 
with  the  Power. 
You       will       soon      be       able      to 

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concentrate  your  attention  so  that  fif- 
teen, twenty,  or  even  thirty  minutes  will 
quickly  pass  and  your  exercise  be  over. 
E-ven  though  you  have      Do  this  in  the  morning,  even  though 

to  get  up  half  an 

hour  earlier  you  have  to  get  up  half  an  hour  earlier, 
and  you  will  be  richly  rewarded. 

If  you  can  do  it  half  an  hour  before  re- 
tiring so  much  the  better,  but  if  you  can 
only  do  it  ten  minutes  be  sure  to  do  that 
much.  Think  of  it  between  times  when 
you  are  walking  on  the  street  or  in  the 
cars,  or  in  any  idle  moments. 
Regularity  most  The  regularity  is  most  important.  Do 

important 

not  miss  even  one  time,  especially  in  the 
morning,  yet  if  circumstances  occur 
which  make  it  absolutely  impossible  to 
conform  to  this  rule,  do  not  spend  any 
time  regretting  your  loss,  but  do  your 
best  and  be  all  the  more  faithful  after- 
ward. 

The  word  Love  you  will  notice,  is  one 
it  is  that  -which  calls  of  the  names  for  God.   It  is  that  which 

forth  your  highest 

quality  cans  forth  your  highest  spiritual  quality 

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and  when  with  your  whole  heart  you  re- 
spond to  its  vibrations,  you  will  be  a 
focusing  center  and  distributor  of  its 
power. 

"Aum"  is  the  Hindu  word   for  God,  DO  not  think  it  is 

all  you  can  do 

and  the  vibration  of  each  letter,  as  well 
as  the  vibration  of  the  word  itself,  will 
put  you  in  touch  with  the  universal 
vibration,  both  from  the  human  and 
Divine  side.  This  exercise  can  be  fol- 
lowed with  great  benefit  for  at  least  a 
month,  or  longer,  but  do  not  think  that 
it  is  all  that  you  can  do.  There  will  be 
many  words  and  sentences  which,  when 
you  hear  or  read  them,  will  find  an  an- 
swering thrill  in  your  heart.  If  so,  select  &lect  the  word  or 

•  1'  -i  ,  •,.-,.  ill          sentence  "which  is 

the  word  or  sentence  which  is  most  help-  moa  Ae/fj-uJ 
ful  and  concentrate  upon  it  by  repeating 
either  mentally  or  audibly  as  you  walk 

along  the  street  or  attend  to  your  busi- 

- 
ness. 

In  this  way  you  will  soon  learn  that 
it  is  possible  to  KEEP  YOUR  MIND  OCCUPIED 

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WITH    THE    KIND    OF   THOUGHTS    THAT    YOU 

Train  your  *ind  in»  SELECT,  and  by  vigilance  and  persistence 
right  kabiu  You  ^jj  tra{n  a  {nt0  ^e  rigfa  habits. 

All  this  means  an  increase  of  mental 
power  and  an  organization  into  working 
order  of  all  your  dominant  faculties. 
Your  will  will  be  strengthened,  your 
perception  made  keener,  your  power  of 
judgment  more  excellent,  and  in  every 
way  you  will  be  gradually  molded  ac- 
cording to  the  pattern  of  your  ideal. 

I  have  spoken  about  the  concentration 
upon  one  word.  But  you  will  soon  find 
that  you  can  take  a  sentence  and  simply 
repeat  it  either  mentally  or  audibly 


Repeat  till  you  enter       fa}  yQU  enfer  intQ  its  quality  and  feel 

into  ttt  quality  and  y 


feel  in  -vibration*  fa  ^^ations.  Be  sure  to  select  the 
word  or  sentence  that  will  be  most  up- 
lifting, most  spiritual. 

The  first  sentence  of  the  23rd  Psalm 
is  a  very  good  one  —  "The  Lord  is  my 
shepherd,  I  shall  not  want."  Kepeat 
this  over  and  over  until  you  feel  its 

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truth,  for  the  feeling  or  conviction  is  the 
proof  of  its  wonderful  power. 
Whenever  you  feel  downcast  or  lonely  whenever  you  /«/ 

lonely  or  discouraged 

or  discouraged  you  can  change  your  vi-  you  can  Charige  your 

brations  by  taking  up  this  first  verse  of 

the    23rd    Psalm,    or    even   the    whole 

Psalm.    But  you  will  also  find  many 

other    beautiful    texts    and    sentences 

which  will  do  the  same  for  you. 

The  change  that  comes  through  the 
repetition  of  words  or  sentences,  by  pro- 
ducing within  you  this  uplifting  and  re- 
assurance, indicates  that  you  have 
struck  the  keynote  that  will  attune  your  n«  taw  struck 
whole  being  to  its  harmony. 

Herein  lies  the  secret,  not  only  of 
your  power  to  control  the  mind,  but  to 
change  the  condition  of  the  body.  I 
will  speak  more  of  this  later  on. 

With  a  little  practice  you  will  quickly 
learn  that  the  substitution  of  a  right 
thought  for  a  wrong  one,  a  cheerful  one 
for  a  discouraged  one,  is  the  clue  to  con-  ?he  ciue  to  controlling 
trolling  your  thoughts.  your  thwghti 

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Why  should  you  sit  down  and  mope 
and  groan  with  discouragement  when 
things  have  gone  wrong,  when,  by  half 
an  hour's  speaking  of  a  few  sentences 
anCMmood  you  can  change  your  whole  mood  from 
one  of  darkness  to  one  of  light?  Why, 
indeed ! 

You  will  find,  with  this  kind  of  think- 
ing that  you  are  gradually  changing  in 
every  way.  You  regard  yourself  in  a 
different  light.  Instead  of  being  a  vic- 
tim of  circumstances  and  a  football  of 
fate,  you  come  to  realize  that  you  are 
it  h  you  -whoarbi-  the  master,  that  it  is  you  who  arbitrate 

tr ate  your  <rwn 

tfairs  and  govern  your  affairs,  and  not  your 
environments.  You  have  a  different  out- 
look upon  life  and  its  opportunities. 
You  become  a  radiator  of  joy  and  good 
cheer.  Is  this  not  worth  while?  But  re- 
member this,  Beloved,  your  success  de- 
pends upon  your  concentration  of  pur- 
Success  dependt  upon  pose  as  well  as  your  concentv 'dtion  of  at- 

concentration  of  pur- 
pose and  attention    tentlOn. 

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The  moment  you  begin  to  recognize 
yourself  as  the  child  of  God,  pure  spirit, 


cause 

Cause. 

"If  God  be  for  you,  ivho  can  be 
against  you."  This  in  itself  is  enough 
to  give  you  courage  to  persevere,  no 
matter  how  many  times  you  seem  to  fail. 

There  are  many  things  which  I 
might  say  and  yet  I  have  given  you 
enough  to  begin  with.  It  is  not  so  impor- 
tant to  have  much  knowledge  as  it  is  to 
live  faithfully  up  to  the  little  that  you 
have.  IT  is  THE  LIVING  THAT  BEINGS  THE  T.he  livi"s  that . 

brings  the  knowing 

KNOWING.  The  essentials  in  living  are, 
a  pure  motive,  a  closeness  to  God,  a  de- 
sire for  righteousness,  and  a  love  that 
includes  every  thing  in  heaven  and  in 
earth. 


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ewe 

min 


CHAPTER  VIII 

Meditation   or   How   to   Enter 
into  the  Silence 

"Do  Thou,  0  Lord  God,  Inspirer  and 
Enlightener  of  all  the  Prophets,  speak 
unto  me;  for  Thou  alone  art  able  per- 
fectly to  instruct  me."  —  A'  Kempis. 

There  are  two  faculties  of  mind  each 
of  which  is  important  in  preserving  the 
mental  equilibrium  and  expressing  the 
facuitie*  of  thoughts  and  feelings  of  the  soul.   Con- 

d  important 

centration  requires  the  positive  or  ac- 
tive use  of  the  mind,  while  meditation 
is  the  result  of  the  passive  or  receptive 
state. 

In  concentration  the  mind  is  alert, 
positive  and  forceful,  although  this  is 
particularly  applicable  to  the  exercises 
as  given  in  Chapter  VI. 

Concentration  is  necessary  as  the  first 
step  in  training  the  mind  because  it  fo- 

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cuses  attention,  enlists  the  will  and  puts  P^the-w  hoi,  being 

into  an  attitude 

the  whole  being  into  an  attitude  of  com-  °fc°mmand 
mand.  It  serves  also  to  shut  every  ave- 
nue through  which  undesirable  sugges- 
tions, thoughts  or  influences  may  enter. 
It  is  a  necessary  preliminary  to  medita- 
tion because  it  prepares  the  mind  to  re- 
ceive whatever  the  will  and  judgment 
may  decree  shall  be  acceptable. 

From  this  you  will  understand  how 
necessary  it  is  to  learn  how  to  concen- 
trate your  attention  upon  any  desired 
subject  even  before  you  are  ready  to 
meditate  upon  that  subject. 

THE    STATE    OF    MEDITATION    IS    ONE    IN    This  state  of  mind 

.^  one   in   tvhich  you 

WHICH   YOU   GATHEK  KNOWLEDGE.     Having  gather  knowledge 

turned  your  mind  in  any  direction  upon 
which  you  wish  to  receive  light,  you  will 
be  able  after  a  little  practice  to  cease 
thinking  through  the  activity  of  the  in- 
tellect, and  to  become  conscious  of  re- 
ceiving thoughts  the  same  as  a  picture  is 
thrown  upon  a  screen.  In  this  way  you 

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are  able  to  realize  or  make  as  your  own, 
not  only  the  word  or  statement  upon 
which  you  concentrate,  but  many  addi- 
tional words  and  thoughts  which  come 

£££  during  your  meditation. 

For  example,  suppose  you  wish  to  en- 
large your  conception  and  realization  of 
the  truth  of  the  23rd  Psalm.  You  begin 
by  concentrating  on  the  sentence,  "The 
Lord  is  my  shepherd. ' '  You  say  or  sing 
these  words  over  and  over  until  your  at- 
tention is  fixed  upon  them  and  their 
underlying  idea. 

and  ^r  untu     After  you  have  repeated  the  state- 

your  attention 

hfxed  ment  long  enough  you  will  find  it 
comparatively  easy  to  stop  the  active 
thinking  just  as  you  stop  the  speaking; 
in  fact  you  do  not  think  at  all,  your  mind 
is  a  blank,  you  are  simply  waiting  for 
thoughts  to  come  to  you,  and  they  will 
come  as  though  from  an  entirely  differ- 
ent source  than  your  intellect.  It  may 
be  possible  instead  of  being  formulated 

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sentences  which  slip  quietly  into  your 
mind,  it  will  be  a  symbolic  picture,  some- 
thing relative  to  your  expressed  desire 
for  a  deepening  and  luminous  under- 
standing of  the  sentence,  or  it  may  be 
a  happy  sense  of  being  cared  for — the 

•  •  ^  hfppy  sense  of 

realization  of  the  words  with  which  you  being  cared  for 
started. 

You  may  wonder  why  a  picture  should 
intrude  itself  before  your  mental  vision. 
Before  answering  that  question  I  want 
you  to  consider  this :  The  Infinite  would 
not  be  Infinite  could  it  not  adjust  itself 
to  every  need  of  the  finite.  Your  con- 
sciousness is  finite  because  it  is  limited 
to  finite  things.  The  Infinite  Conscious- 
ness reveals  itself  through  symbols. 

All  nature  is  one  vast  panorama  of  AH  Nature  ;s  one 
symbolic  objects.    Every  thought  is  ex-  fa" 
pressed  in  a  word  symbol  or  a  picture 
symbol,  and  just  as  the  child  learns  lan- 
guage and   gathers  knowledge  through 
the  interpretation  of  the  things  and  con- 

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ditions  °f  the  world,  so  you  must  learn 
in  the  same  way  to  interpret  the  signs 
and  symbols  that  are  thrown  upon  the 
screen  of  your  mind  when  you  are  pas- 
sive enough  to  receive  them.  This  is 
why  the  picture  instead  of  the  thought 
may  come  into  your  mind. 

If  then,  after  you  have  concentrated 
upon  the  sentence  already  suggested, 
you  see  a  mental  picture  or  become  con- 
scious of  new  thoughts  crowding  into 
your  mind  chamber,  you  may  know  that 
you  are  truly  in  a  state  of  meditation. 

In  the  act  of  concentration,  you  fixed 
your  attention  upon  a  given  subject  pre- 
paratory to  receiving  new  light  upon  it. 
In  the  state  of  receiving  you  are  medi- 
tating. 
study  the  ?wo  By  carefully  studying  the  two  aspects 

aspects  of  mind       „        ._  .        -i.,-i 

of  mind  required  in  these  two  processes 
you  will  see  the  nature  of  both  the  active 
and  the  passive,  and  the  necessary  rela- 
tion of  each  to  the  other. 

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I  want  you  to  understand  this  thor- 
oughly in  order  that  you  may  develop 
both  faculties  and  so  keep  your  mind  in  K"py°ur  >»>»<i'»<' 

state  of  balance 

a  state  of  balance  and  power.  and  power 

Too  much  concentration  without  med- 
itation would  make  you  positive,  aggres- 
sive and  argumentative.  Too  much  med- 
itation without  concentration  would 
cause  you  to  be  too  passive  and  there- 
fore receptive  to  many  influences,  any 
or  all  of  which  might  be  detrimental. 

This  is  to  be  carefully  avoided.  It  is 
imperative  that  it  should  be  avoided. 
Many  subtle  dangers  aivait  the  one  who 
is  not  well  balanced  in  both  these  impor- 
tant and  really  essential  mind  powers. 
After  a  little  practice  if  you  are  regu-  Beware  of  being 

over-confident 

lar  as  to  the  time  every  day,  you  will  find 
that  your  mind  is  acquiring  the  habit 
of  expecting  the  exercises.  This  means 
that  you  are  making  good  progress,  but 
beware  of  being  over-confident  and  thus 
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a  very  short  time  to  concentrate  your 

mind  upon  any  definite  subject  or  idea 

YOU  may  ha™  -won-  and   though   you  may  have   wonderful 

derful  realization 

oftrutht  realization  of  truths  and  principles  dur- 
ing your  meditation. 

You  have  by  no  means  reached  the 
goal.  No,  you  are  just  beginning,  and 
for  some  time  the  practice  will  be  similar 
to  that  of  the  child  who  is  learning  to 
play  the  piano.  The  practice  of  the 
scales  is  very  dry  and  uninteresting,  and 
to  the  child  it  seems  utterly  useless,  yet 
a  command  of  the  fingers  with  all  their 
wonderful  capacity  for  skill  and  delicacy 
of  touch  is  being  developed  so  they  can 
produce  exquisite  music  by  their  per- 
formance. 

And  you,  Beloved,  by  being  faithful 
to  the  suggestion  given  you  for  concen- 
trating or  focusing  your  mind  and  for 
By  being  faithful  to  opening  it  for  new  knowledge,  are  being 

the  suggestion 

prepared  for  wonderful  experiences  in 
the  development  and  exercise  of  spirit- 

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ual  faculties  which  are  as  yet  scarcely 
dreamed  of. 
When   you   have   learned   to    control  Abk  to  appropriate 

from  the  universal 

your  mind  by  directing  your  attention  ««-^««« 
into  any  desired  channel,  you  will  be 
able  to  appropriate  from  the  universal 
storehouse  of  ideas  whatever  class  or 
kind  of  knowledge  you  may  need.  Then 
you  may  at  any  moment  enter  into  the 
silence  and  shut  the  door  upon  every 
earthly  thought  or  consideration  that  is 
undesirable. 

You  have  heard  much  about  going 
into  the  silence.  It  simply  means  going 
into  the  still  chamber  of  your  own  soul 
where  you  may  be  conscious  of  com- 
munion with  God. 

Jesus  called  this  "entering  into  the  ne  secret  place  of 

the  Most  High 

closet  to  be  with  the  Father  ivho  seeth  in 
secret."  David  beautifully  named  it 
"The  secret  place  of  the  Most  High." 

This,  Beloved,  is  your  refuge  from 
any  trouble  or  sorrow  that  may  come 

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upon  you.  This  is  the  precious  result  of 
your  training  in  overcoming  the  old 
habits  of  worry,  or  fear,  or  sadness  that 
have  led  you  so  far  out  into  the  world 
and  its  tumults  that  you  may  not  even 
know  how  to  find  your  way  back  to  the 
Comforter. 

Think  what  all  this  means  to  you  as 
a  practical,  living  truth.  In  the  journey 
through  this  world  you,  as  well  as  all 
others  will  have  the  little  trials,  annoy- 
tn  you  have  ances  and  vexations  of  soul  until  you 

learned    to    enter  .  . 

into  the  silence  have  learned  to  enter  into  this  silence 
which  is  indeed  a  refuge  and  a  place  of 
Peace.  You  can  easily  imagine  what  it 
would  be  to  have  a  quiet  room  in  your 
house  to  which  you  might  retire  when 
there  was  disturbance  or  confusion.  In 
the  same  way  I  want  you  to  think  of 
this  silence  of  the  Spirit  into  which  you 
may  enter  at  any  moment,  as  you  surely 
may,  when  you  truly  understand  how  to 
do  so. 

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Next  to  the  importance  of  prayer  are 
concentration  and  meditation,  for  these 
are  the  first  steps  in  the  control  and  di-  Fir.a  "?' '" tht  nn- 

trol  ana  direction 

rection  of  mind,  yet  while  I  have  tried  »f*hemini1 
to  make  these  methods  very  plain  to 
you,  please  do  not  confine  yourself  to  the 
words  that  I  have  given.  You  will  find 
as  you  go  on,  that  you  are  truly  being 
taught  of  the  Spirit  and  every  day  the 
Spirit  will  give  you  new  food  for  your 
spiritual  life. 

You  will  begin  to  find  many  new  beau- 
ties in  the  Bible,  and  your  heart  will 
grow  warm  and  tender,  for  the  texts, 
verses  and  chapters  will  be  as  manna  to 
your  soul.  In  this  way  you  will  find  a  Find  a  help  for  every 

time  of  need 

help  for  every  time  of  need,  and  be  able 
to  realize  many  helpful  and  practical 
truths  which  you  can  call  up  from  the 
storehouse  of  your  memory  at  any  mo- 
ment of  need. 

Base  your  words  or  statements  dur- 
ing concentration  upon  the  one  overrul- 

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ing  idea  that  God  is  your  sufficiency  for 
every  need. 

You  can  find  innumerable  texts  that 
will  embody  this  thought  and  the  con- 
tinuous repetition  and  meditation  upon 
win  refresh  you  \n  them  will  refresh  you  in  soul,  mind  and 

MMj  mind  and  body 

body.  If  you  feel  weak  or  discouraged, 
read  the  last  part  of  the  40th  chapter  of 
Isaiah.  In  the  29th  verse,  for  instance, 
you  will  find  a  remedy  for  your  weak- 
ness. "He  giveth  power  to  the  faint,  and 
to  them  who  have  no  might,  He  giveth 
strength."  Say  this  aloud  ten  or  twelve 
times  and  then  meditate  upon  it. 

Do  you  not  see  how,  as  a  natural  re- 
sult you  will  begin  to  appropriate  the 
power  and  the  strength  to  yourself? 

Yes,  Beloved,  you  will  find  yourself 
rr  •*  j  j  vivified  and  strengthened  and  able  to  do 

Vivified  and 

xrcngthentd  y0ur  task  because  you  realize  that  it  is 
done  with  the  strength  of  God. 

Suppose  again,  you  have  tried  very 
hard  to  accomplish  something  and  it 

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seems  that  you  have  failed;  you  begin 
to  feel  depressed  and  burdened  with 
fear.  Stop  a  moment,  resolve  to  concen- 
trate your  mind  upon  some  good  true  concentrate 

t  r\  -r\'i  i  ,t  i     upon  some  rood -words 

words.  Open  your  Bible  to  the  4-lst 
chapter  and  10th  verse  of  Isaiah.  There 
you  will  find  these  inspiring  words, 
"Fear  thou  not  for  I  am  with  thee,  be 
not  dismayed  for  I  am  thy  God.  I  will 
strengthen  ihee,  yea,  I  will  help  thee, 
yea,  I  will  uphold  thee  with  the  right 
hand  of  my  righteousness."  Is  this  not 
comforting?  Does  it  not  revive  your 
courage  and  make  it  easy  for  you  to 
meditate  upon  the  goodness  and  the 
tender  love  of  your  Father? 

The  moment  the  tension  is  lifted  from  Tke  moment  the  ten_ 
your  heart  you  will  find  the  depression  ««« «/iM/™» 

your  heart 

gone.  You  have  conquered  it  by  rising 
above  it;  you  have  withdrawn  from  it 
and  entered  into  the  secret  place  where 
all  thoughts  of  worry  and  anxiety,  fear 
or  discouragement  are  left  behind.  You 
are  in  the  silence,  alone,  with  God. 

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Can  you  do  this  day  after  day,  week 
after  week,  month  after  month  without 
finding  by  your  own  personal  experience 
that  God  is  a  present  help  in  time  of 
trouble,  and  that  you  can,  indeed,  enter 

prtitnct 

into  His  presence  and  find  peace?    BY 

TBUE  MEDITATION  yOU  PROVE  that  yOU  CAN 
BE  TAUGHT  BY  THE  HOLY  SPIEIT. 

This,  Beloved,  is  the  way  to  live  as 
the  child  of  God.  Not  to  be  apart  from 
God,  but  to  dwell  with  Him  so  that  you 
may  talk  with  Him,  question  Him  and 
receive  from  Hun  comfort,  counsel  and 
help.  This,  after  all,  is  the  simplest  yet 
the  highest  and  truest  way  to  live  the 
life  of  the  spirit. 

of  This  is  the  secret  of  happiness.  It  is 
the  way  of  health,  and  the  promise  of 
true  and  holy  success. 

Let  not  a  day  pass  that  you  do  not 
learn  something  new,  true  and  beautiful, 
something  that  though  you  may  not  need 
at  the  time,  will  be  like  a  stone  fitly  pol- 

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ished  and  shaped  for  the  building  of 
your  wall  of  defense,  for,  Beloved,  every 
grand  statement  of  Truth  with  which  Em?  grand  a**- 

ment  of  truth 

you  store  your  mind  in  your  day  of  joy 
and  peace  is  to  be  put  into  your  house 
that  is  made  without  hands. 

This  is  true  consecration.  With  it 
cannot  fail  to  come  the  second  birth. 
Then  you  will  be  as  a  care-free  child, 
living  moment  by  moment  in  the  pres- 
ence and  unto  the  glory  of  God. 

Be  not  so  eager  to  learn  as  to  live. 
Live  not  in  the  past  nor  in  the  future,  Li™  in  the  beautiful 

noiw 

but  in  the  beautiful  now.  Childlikeness 
and  Godlikeness  are  very  near  akin,  and 
you  remember  the  condition  that  Jesus 
gave  was  this:  "Except  ye  become  as  a 
little  child,  ye  can  in  no  wise  enter  into 
the  Kingdom  of  Heaven." 

Beloved,  pray  for  the  peace  of  Jerusa- 
lem. "Peace  be  within  thy  walls  and 
prosperity  within  thy  palaces." 

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CHAPTER  IX 
The  Secret  of   Mystic   Power 

"That  man  alone  is  wise  who  keeps 
the  mastery  of  himself." — Bhagavad- 
gita. 

When  you  begin  to  live  the  inner  or 
rou  acquire  new  spiritual  life  you  acquire  new  powers 
f<nverif™e,  and  forces.   This  in  a  great  measure  is 
an  unconscious  process,  yet  the  advan- 
tage of  knowing  the  law  of  development 
lies  in  the  possibility  of  your  making 
conditions  for  attaining  and  using  the 
true  mystic  power.    You  must  learn  in 
many  ways  to  discipline  and  teach  your 
lower  self,  the  natural  man,  so  that  the 
spiritual  may  have  full  sway  to  operate 
through    the    natural.     The    untrained 
natural  is  full  of  curiosity ;  this  must  be 
changed  into  an  earnest  desire  for  the 
A  tingie-eye^  un-  Truth.   A  single-eyed,  undeviating  pur- 
*  pose,  not  only  to  know  the  truth,  but  to 

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be  the  embodiment  of  it,  will  cause  you 
to  notice  the  many  traits  of  character 
which  must  be  lopped  off.  as  it  were,  in  which  must  be 

lopped  off 

order  to  allow  the  spiritual  to  take  ma- 
jestic command. 

Referring  again  to  curiosity.  It  is  a 
word  that  relates  to  the  material  realm 
largely,  for  it  is  an  eagerness  to  see  and 
know  about  persons,  places  or  things 
that  attract  the  attention  of  the  senses. 

You  can  see  that  the  curiosity-filled 
mind  LIVES  IN  THE  EXTERNAL,  WHILE  THE 

SPIRITUAL   MIND  IS   WITHDRAWN  FROM  THE 

EXTERNAL  and  centers  upon  truths  and  centers  upon  tru 

and  principles 

principles  which  pertain  to  the  interior 
or  spiritual  existence.  Then  if  you  wish 
to  advance  in  spiritual  power  you  must 
restrain  every  inclination  to  pry  into 
things  that  are  of  no  importance. 

To  make  a  still  more  practical  and 
personal  application,  you  must  school 
yourself  to  refrain  from  asking  ques- 
tions about  people  or  their  affairs,  or  to 

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be  interested  in  things  that  are  of  mere 

passing  moment  merely  for  the  sake  of 

Thittviii  lead  to  the  idle     curiosity.      Naturally    this    will 

overcoming  of 

any  habit  iea(j  to  the  overcoming  of  any  habit  of 
gossip  or  the  tendency  to  interfere  with 
people's  plans  or  personal  matters. 

To  sit  "quiet-eyed  and  serene"  medi- 
tating upon  the  spirit  and  its  many  vir- 
tues is  to  become  the  true  mystic;  yet 
I  would  not  have  you  think  for  a  mo- 
ment that  it  is  the  passive  life  that  is 
advocated. 

Far  from  it.  The  ideal  life  is  both 
passive  and  active,  and  it  is  my  de- 
sire to  lead  you  into  such  development 
of  soul,  mind  and  body  that  you  will  be 
enabled  in  your  own  individuality  to 
represent  and  practice  both.  I  say 
again  and  for  the  third  time,  resolve  to 
Conquer  your  natural  conquer  your  natural  curiosity. 

curionty 

I  do  not  mean  that  you  should  not 
be  interested  in  things  or  persons,  but 
that  you  should  see  in  them  their  true 

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spiritual  value.  You  will  indeed  be  more 
interested  than  ever  before,  but  it  wffl  j^J^ 
be  from  an  entirely  different  standpoint 
than  that  of  curiosity. 

To  illustrate  the  difference  between 
the  effect  of  the  desire  to  know  about 

a  person  as  a  means  of  satisfying  your 

» 

curiosity,  or  to  know  about  him  in  order 
to  help  him  to  discover  and  to  bring 
forth  his  spiritual  quality,  I  will  give 
you  an  example. 

Suppose  a  person  whom  you  have 
never  seen  and  yet  of  whom  you  have 
heard  many  strange  things,  should 
be  accused  of  doing  something  very 
wrong,  your  natural  curiosity  would 
lead  you  to  ask  what  he  had  done  and 
every  detail  concerning  it.  Can  you  not 
see  if  you  persisted  in  your  questions 
how  far  away  from  the  higher,  truer  life 
you  would  be  led,  by  seeking  to  gratify 
your  morbid  and  useless  desire  to  know 
things,  that  it  would  be  better  to  forget,  % b 

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or  better  still,  to  never  know?    On  the 

contrary,  upon  hearing  some  hint  of  his 

misdemeanor,  could  you  not  help  him 

A  thousandfold  and  yourself  also,  a  thousand  fold  more 

more 

if  you  persistently  held  in  your  mind 
the  thought  of  his  spiritual  self-hood 
with  all  its  possibilities  for  good? 

By  doing  this  you  are  not  only  giving 
him  a  positive  benefit,  but  you  are  de- 
veloping within  yourself  A  BESEBVE 

POWER  WHICH  ADDS  IMMEASUBEABLY  TO 
YOUB  SPIRITUAL  VALUE. 

Another  thing  you  must  cultivate  is 

silence,  not  merely  the  exercise  which 

I  have  given  as  a  definite  mental  dis- 

,. ,  cipline,  but  the  silence  tvhich  keeps  you 

The    silence    -which        * 

?£$£:££  f™m  babbling  of  useless  things. 

Emerson  said,  "Do  not  spill  your 
soul."  These  few  words  so  fully  convey 
the  reason  for  this  golden  silence  that  I 
ask  you  to  think  about  them  much  and 
often  for  while  we  cannot  take  them  lit- 
erally knowing  the  soul  itself  cannot  be 

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spilled,  they  do  indeed  give  the  clue  to  a™  the  due  to 

•wasted  Jorcet 

many  wasted  forces.  Every  time  you 
give  way  to  an  emotion,  an  exclamation 
of  anger,  worry  or  grief,  you  are  losing 
soul  force  and  thereby  mystic  power. 

Lay  out  for  yourself  a  few  little  rules 
for  daily  practice.  Follow  them  care- 
fully a  week  or  a  month,  and  you  will 
see  what  a  great  change  has  come  over 
you. 

I  will  here  give  you  a  few  sugges- 
tions for  the  rules : 

First,  Restrain  curiosity. 

Second,  Practice  silence  Toy  the  ab- 
staining from  trivial  speech. 

Third,  Observe  all  incidents  and  con- 
ditions with  the  desire  to  understand 
their  spiritual  significance. 

Fourth,  Restrain  your  impulses. 

Fifth,  Decide  all  questions  from  a 
standpoint  of  principle  rather  than  per- 
sonality. 

Lastly,  Live  in  the  spirit  and  walk  in 

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the  spirit,  in  order  that  you  may  have 
the  fruits  of  the  spirit. 

Write  each  of  these  rules  upon  a  slip 

of  paper  and  pin  it  upon  your  wall  or 

some  place  where  your  eye  will  fall  upon 

M^ every possibie  it  easily.    Study  each  sentence;  make 

aff"Cywrxif  every  possible  application  to  yourself. 

I  have  already  enlarged  upon  the 
control  of  curiosity.  I  have  spoken  of 
the  benefits  of  silence. 

Now  as  to  the  third  rule  which  bids 
you  observe  all  incidents  and  conditions 
with  the  desire  to  understand  their 
spiritual  significance.  Suppose  you  have 

jrx«  &«*.«.,*,  a  cold  come  suddenly  upon  you.    Why 
jiaye  vou  f.aken  jt?  What  lesson  can  you 

get  out  of  it?  What  mental  or  physical 
conditions  made  it  possible  for  you  to 
have  a  cold?  These  are  pertinent  ques- 
tions. 

After  due  observation  and  experience 
you  will  decide  as  to  whether  it  was  a 
mental  or  physical  door  through  which 

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the  cold  entered,  and  you  will  be  careful 
to  avoid  opening  that  door  in  the  future. 
You  may  find  that  very  often  it  is  the  Very  °fte»  >'  "  *** 

mental  door  that 

mental  door  that  was  left  open.  It  may  "  leff  °ttn 
have  been  through  a  fit  of  anger  that 
you  brought  on  the  cold,  or  it  may  be  a 
disappointment,  or  possibly  it  was  be- 
cause you  were  very  tired  and  allowed 
yourself  to  be  susceptible  to  physical 
conditions. 

In  any  event  it  was  a  f  orgetfulness  on 
your  part  of  ivho  and  what  you  are  as 
spirit  which  made  it  possible  for  you  to 
succumb.  Or  suppose  instead  of  a  physi- 
cal condition  you  are  led  to  study  a  cer- 
tain occurrence  or  incident  in  your 
family.  If  unpleasant  it  has  its  signifi- 
cance and  may  have  been  the  cause  of  If  hai  '»  «?»#"*»« 

•which  ytu  may 
COld.  discover 


IF  YOUE  MIND  IS  OPEN  YOU  WILL  QUICK- 
LY DISCERN  THE  DIRECT  OR  INDIRECT  CAUSE, 
AND  GAIN  THE  BENEFIT  OF  YOUR  KNOWL- 

EDGE.  Every  bit  of  spiritual  knowledge, 

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gives  you  an  intelligent  hold  upon  your 
spiritual  power. 
A -word  about      Now,   a  word  about  your  impulses. 

your  imfu/set 

You  see  the  necessity  of  training  your- 
self not  to  express  too  much  feeling  or 
emotion,  for  every  impulsive  efferves- 
cence robs  you  of  the  force  which  might 
otherwise  keep  you  firm  and  strong, 
both  in  your  mental  and  physical  atmos- 
phere. 

Fifth.  Decide  all  questions  from  a 
standpoint  of  principle  rather  than  per- 
sonality. This  is  a  very  important  rule 
and  will  help  you  to  avoid  untold  suffer- 
ing, both  for  yourself  and  others  when 
you  learn  to  follow  it. 
Guide  your  nfe  by  To  guide  your  life  by  a  principle  is 

a  principle    ^    ^    ^    ^    ^    ^^    for    rf^^    gake 

and  not  merely  because  you  enjoy  doing 
right,  or  are  afraid  of  doing  wrong. 
Many  things  might  be  easy,  but  they 
might  not  be  right  and  would  therefore 
bring  trouble  because  of  their  deviation 

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from  the  right.  To  a  person  who  does 
not  understand  even  the  simple  rules  of 
arithmetic,  it  is  not  easy  to  add  figures, 
and  yet  in  paying  or  receiving  money  it 
is  necessary  to  know  exactly  how  much 
to  give  or  receive. 

When  you  begin  to  live  the  spiritual 
life  consciously,  you  must  live  the  mathe-  r™  muaint  the 

mathematical  ttfe 

matical  life.  Everything  must  be  exact, 
for  you  must,  indeed,  reap  what  you 
sow. 

In  all  your  relations  with  the  world, 
with  people  or  with  yourself,  be  true, 
absolutely  true.  This  means,  if  you 
are  on  the  street  car  and  the  conductor 
fails  to  call  for  your  fare  you  must  be 
true  to  your  principle,  as  well  as  to  the 
railway  company,  and  pay  your  fare,  for 
just  as  surely  as  you  withhold  that  just  ai  iureiy  ai 

.,,      ,  ,  f  you  -withhold 

money  you  will  cheat  yourself. 

You  may  ask,  What  has  all  this  to  do 
with  the  secret  of  mystic  power.  It  has 
everything  to  do  with  it.  The  least  tip 

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of  the  scales  of  righteousness  towards 
wrong  or  injustice  robs  you  of  spiritual 
mystic  force. 

These  rules  I  have  given  are  to  help 
on  to  increase  yOU  ^  your  daily  living  to  increase  and 

and  conserve  the 

tpintuaiforcet  conserve  the  spiritual  forces. 

You  must  learn  self-mastery  if  you 
would  be  a  true  mystic.  If  you  do  not 
live  according  to  the  rules,  these  forces 
are  being  continually  diffused  instead  of 
conserved,  and  instead  of  your  being 
masterful,  wise  and  powerful,  you  are 
quite  the  opposite.  There  is  another 
reason  and  a  very  important  one  why 
you  should  cultivate  your  self-control. 

Around  about  every  human  being,  in- 
visible to  the  ordinary  eye  but  plainly 
seen  by  the  clairvoyant,  there  is  an  egg- 
shaped  cloud  called  the  aura.  It  may  be 
compared  to  the  delicate  white  lining  of 
an  egg,  that  which  lies  next  to  the  shell. 
You  can  understand  what  would  happen 
to  the  egg  in  the  shell  if  the  lining  were 

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broken.    WHENEVER  YOU  YIELD  YOURSELF 

TO  ANY  STRONG  EMOTION  SUCH  AS  EXTREME 
JOY,  OR  GRIEF,  OR  FEAR,  YOUR  AURA  IS 
PUNCTURED,  AND  THE  SOUL  FORCE  ESCAPES.  TAe  soul  force  etcafet 

This  is  why  you  feel  so  exhausted  or 
weak  physically,  after  a  paroxysm  of 
laughter  or  grief  or  anger  or  any  ex- 
treme emotion. 

Doubtless  you  have  known  people  to 
say  that  they  did  not  dare  to  give  way 
to  their  emotions  for  they  were  pros- 
trated after  it.  This  because  their  aura 
has  been  invaded  by  outside  forces  as 
well  as  broken  so  as  to  scatter  forces 
within. 

In  comparing  the  aura  to  the  lining  of 
the  egg  I  did  not  mean  to  imply  that 
it  is  a  substance  like  that,  but  that  rather 
it  is  a  protector  as  the  skin  is  the  pro- 
tector of  the  soft  part  of  the  egg. 

The  aura  in  reality  is  more  like  a  firm, 
enclosing  atmosphere  than  a  substance.  A /i 
It  is  formed  by  the  magnetic  and  electric 

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vibrations  emanating  from  the  thoughts, 
feelings  and  qualities  of  the  mind  and 
soul. 

To  the  clairvoyant  sight  this  aura  is 
indicates  the  mood,  colored  and  by  its  color  indicates  the 

condition  and 

quality  mood,  condition  and  quality  of  the  per- 
son it  enspheres. 

The  one  who  is  living  the  sensual  life 
has  a  very  gross  or  low  quality  of  vibra- 
tion and  a  dark,  muddy  or  reddish 
brown,  gray,  or  a  peculiar  red  looking 
and  repellant  aura,  but  the  person  who 
is  living  a  life  of  purity,  truth,  and  noble 
aspirations  has  a  most  beautiful  and 
attractive  aura  of  golden  yellow,  blue 
or  opaline  tints,  etc. 

A  PERSON  WITH  THESE  LATTER  COLOR- 
INGS IS  MAGNETIC  ;  HE  IS  ABLE  TO  WIN  FOR 
HIMSELF  FRIENDS,  OPPORTUNITIES  AND 

PRIVILEGES.   His  life  is  a  continuous  ex- 

A  continuous 

exhalation  halation  of  the  vibrations  of  love,  peace 
and  holiness.  It  is  plain  at  once  that  he 
would  be  a  power  for  good,  even  with- 

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out  assuming  that  virtue.  He  would  be 
able  to  give  wise  counsel,  to  heal  the 

counsel 

sick  and  to  send  forth  his  word  with  the 
power  of  a  master.  Can  you  guess 
wherein  lies  his  secret? 

Is  it  not  in  that  self-control,  that  in- 
ward quietude,  that  spiritual  insight, 
that  devotion  to  the  interests  of  others, 
that  contemplation  of  the  presence  of 
God,  (which  is  the  habit  always  of  the 
true  mystic)  that  makes  him  the  embod- 
iment of  the  mystic  power? 

Yes,  Beloved,  this  one  is  a  close  fol- 
lower of  the  Master  whose  watchword 
for  all  occasions  and  all  conditions  was 
love,  whose  great  commandment  was: 

Whose    tvatch'word 

11  Love  the  Lord  thy  God  with  all  thy  for  a"  cond"'ons 

•was  love 

heart,  with  all  thy  soul,  with  all  thy 
strength,  and  thy  neighbor  as  thyself." 

In  obeying  this  commandment  can 
you  do  otherwise  than  live  in  the  spirit? 

Beloved,  the  words  of  this  lesson  are 

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as  nuts ;  crack  them  and  eat  the  kernels. 
In  this  you  will  find  verily  food  for  the 
soul. 


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CHAPTER  X 
Mental  and  Physical  Conditions  for  Health. 

"//  man  were  in  possession  of  a  per- 
fect knowledge  of  self  he  would  not  need 
to  be  sick  at  all." — Words  of  a  Mystic 
who  lived  in  the  sixteenth  century. 

In  order  to  obtain  and  keep  good 
health  it  is  necessary  not  only  to  have 
high  spiritual  ideals,  but  to  keep  the 
mind  and  body  in  good  condition.  The 
soul  is  the  seat  of  emotions  which  either  T^  *>«/  the  u< 

of  emotion* 

upbuild  or  destroy  the  fair  outlook  of 
the  mind.  Joy,  hope,  courage  and  kin- 
dred feelings  are  conducive  to  the  best 
use  of  mental  as  well  as  physical  activi- 
ties, while  their  opposites,  sorrow,  des- 
pondency, hopelessness,  fear  or  doubt 
are  like  black  curtains  drawn  over  the 
windows  of  your  mind  shutting  out  all 
that  is  bright  and  beautiful. 

THE  MOMENT  YOU  FEEL  THE  BURDEN  OP 
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FEAR  FALLING  UPON  YOUE  HEART  YOU 
SHOULD  SUMMON  ALL  YOUR  FAITH,  AND  AS- 
SURANCE TO  BANISH  IT. 

This  you  can  do  by  resolutely  turning 

from  the  thought  of  it  and  all  that  it  sug- 

ords  that  'win  Up-  gests,  to  words  that  will  naturally  up- 

lift  your  hcwt 

lift  your  heart  and  fill  your  mind  with 
beautiful  instead  of  ugly  mental  pic- 
tures. It  is  so  easy  to  fall  into  the  habit 
of  worrying,  of  constantly  looking  on 
the  dark  side  and  imagining  all  kind  of 
evil  conditions,  but  remember,  Beloved, 
any  habit  can  be  broken  providing  all 
your  faculties  for  establishing  a  better 
condition  are  brought  to  bear  upon  the 
matter. 

The  mind,  the  natural  mind,  or  as 
Paul  calls  it  ''the  mind  of  the  flesh,"  is 
prone  to  the  seeing  of  evil.  It  is  this 
which  leads  you  into  all  kinds  of  mental 
discords  and  dissipations,  but  the  "mind 
Mind  of  the  tfirit  of  the  spirit,"  to  quote  again  from  Paul, 
"leads  to  life  and  peace." 

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You  can  see  by  this  that  the  beginning  The  beginning  of 

reform 

of  reform  in  habits  of  thinking  lies  in 
the  control  of  this  mind  of  the  flesh.  In 
one  sense  this  mind  belonging  to  the 
natural  man  is  like  a  child,  and  needs  dis- 
cipline and  training  in  order  to  become 
obedient  to  the  mind  of  the  spirit  which 
should  be  the  master.  Now  that  you 
recognize  this  as  your  real  self  you  have 

Only  to  EDUCATE  YOTTB  WILL,  JUDGMENT, 
SENSES,  AND  EMOTIONS,  TO  CONFORM  TO  AND 
OBEY  YOUR  HIGHER  SELF. 

Whatever  habit  you  wish  to  correct, 
can  be  corrected  if  you  hold  steadily  to 
this  thought  that  there  is  nothing  impos-  Nothins  «*/««*/« 
sible  to  the  Divine  Power  and  Will.  All 
that  is  good  within  you  can  be  brought 
into  accord  with  it.  All  that  is  evil  can 
be  transmuted  or  destroyed. 

Now  for  your  habits,  what  are  they? 

Suppose  you  have  what  you  call  a  bad 
temper;  while  you  have  long  suffered 
mentally  and  physically,  yet  you  say  that 

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you  have  never  been  able  to  control  it. 

You  can  do  so  now  if  you  will  heed  the 

Heed  suggestion,  suggestions  given  you.    Remember  first, 

given 

that  all  progress  is  according  to  the  wise 
statement  of  Isaiah  when  he  said:  "Line 
upon  line  and  precept  upon  precept." 

The  first  thought  you  should  have  in 
regard  to  this  matter  of  temper  is  this — 
"The  spirit  is  always  calm,  wise  and 
unchanging.  I  dm  spirit,  therefore,  I 
cannot  be  disturbed  by  any  condition 
that  goes  on  around  me.  My  thought 
is  of  the  spirit,  and  therefore  it  is  filled 
with  peace.  I  can  possess  my  soul  in 
patience  because  the  soul  is  subject  unto 
the  spirit  even  as  the  spirit  is  subject 
unto  the  Father.  I  am  calm,  now  and 
always;  I  am  poised,  I  abide  in  the  cen- 

Abidt  in  the  center  ,    —.  .. 

ter  of  Peace. 

If  you  will  learn  these  words  and  re- 
peat them  ten  or  twelve  times,  the  mo- 
ment you  begin  to  feel  impatient  or 
angry,  the  feeling  will  soon  disappear. 

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By  doing  this  day  after  day  you  will  r«  ««//«/«««*/ 

habit  of  calmness 

finally  establish  the  habit  of  calmness 
so  that  it  will  be  no  trouble  for  you  to 
speak  and  act  accordingly. 

This  serenity  of  feeling  and  thought 
will  help  to  establish  not  only  your 
health  but  your  happiness. 

As  you  learn  how  to  control  anger, 
you  will  learn  how  to  control  all  other 
emotions  which  lead  you  into  valleys  of 
darkness. 

THE  REMEDY  FOB  ALL  DISCOED  IS  HAR- 
MONY. 

In  the  spirit  you  will  find  harmony. 
By  dwelling  in  the  spirit  your  conscious- 
ness will  fall  as  a  limpid  stream  into 
your  mind  and  from  thence  be  sent  forth 
as  beautiful  thoughts  to  be  translated  Trmttattd  into  btne 
into  beneficent  activities.  -You  see,  there-  *""' activities 
fore,  the  way  to  the  subjection  and  con- 
trol of  emotions  and  thoughts. 

In  regard  to  health  this  is  very 
important.  You  must  be  optimistic, 

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seeing  the  bright  side  of  everything, 
looking  hopefully  to  a  happy  outcome  of 
all  conditions  whatever  they  may  be. 

is  a  nfe  of  trust  The  life  of  the  spirit  is  a  life  of  trust. 
It  recognizes  God  in  you,  and  God  with- 
out, for  is  He  not  the  Father  of  all,  who 
is  above  all,  through  all  and  in  all? 

This  is  the  center  and  base  of  all  your 
thought  and  your  habits  of  living.  How 
can  you  be  otherwise  than  hopeful  even 
though  you  can  not  see  the  thing  hoped 
for,  if  you  have  faith  in  God  and  His 
law? 

When  you  have  hope  you  see  in  your 
mind's  eye,  the  desirable  condition. 
Hope  then  is  a  great  factor  in  the  build- 
ing of  health  for  it  gives  to  your  mind 
the  image  of  the  healthy  body.  It  en- 

abiti  you  to  n-ve  ables  you  to  live  above  time,  and  to 

above  time 

count  not  the  period  of  waiting. 

Joy,  too,  is  essential.  It  helps  you  to 
see  the  beauty  in  everything.  It  helps 
you  to  be  interested  in  life,  in  nature 

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and  in  persons  and  things.  Physically 
it  keeps  your  blood  circulating.  It 
makes  you  not  only  lighthearted  but 
lightfooted.  It  enables  you  to  draw 
long  deep  breaths  and  to  renew  your  *<**«>  *«" 

*  continually 

strength  continually. 

We  must  not  underrate  courage,  for 
this  too  is  invaluable.  It  helps  you  to 

see  beyond  obstacles  and  to  overcome 

. 

them.  It  makes  you  fearless  in  facing 
duties  and  conditions  that  otherwise 
might  seem  hard. 

All  the  graces  and  virtues  of  the 
spirit  must  be  put  into  your  daily  living 
for  in  this  way  only,  Beloved,  will  you  be 

ABLE  TO  KEEP  SOUL,  MIND  AND  BODY  IN  PEB- 
FECT  ACCORD. 

This  means  health.  Should  there  be  This  mean, 
at  any  time  a  discord  between  these 
three  phases  of  your  being,  there  is  sure 
to  be  a  manifestation  called  disease. 
Holiness  in  the  soul,  harmony  in  mind, 
and  health  in  the  body  are  degrees  of 

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the  same  thing,  namely  wholeness,  per- 
fection.      When   the  three  are  joined 
beautiful  there     cannot    be     otherwise     than     a 

body 

healthy,  beautiful,  sound  body. 

You  will  need  only  a  short  period  of 
experience  in  living  these  truths  I  have 
given  you,  before  you  will  realize  what 
a  wonderful  power  and  scope  your 
thought  has.  This  means  you  have 
great  responsibilities  not  only  in  regard 
to  yourself  but  in  regard  to  everyone 
of  whom  you  think  with  any  degree  of 
interest  or  love. 

Have  you  not  noticed  how  quickly  you 

can  detect  the  mood  of  another?    Very 

often  you  can  tell  of  what  he  is  thinking. 

This  is  because  between  minds  that  are 

be  -.ommunica-  related   there   is   oneness   and  may  be 

tion  of  thought 

or  mood  communication  of  thought  or  mood.  It 
means  even  more  than  this,  since  time, 
nor  space  nor  matter  offer  obstruction 
to  thought.  It  travels  with  the  speed  of 
lightning  to  the  person  or  object  thought 

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about.  This  I  have  already  referred 
to  in  a  previous  lesson;  I  wish  only  to 
remind  you  of  what  a  WONDERFUL  PRIVI-  ^ 

frtvilege 
LEGE  IS  YOUES  IN  CHOOSING  AND  THINKING 

THOUGHTS  THAT  MAY  BE  SENT  FORTH  FOR 
THE  HEALTH  AND  HEALING  OP  THE  ABSENT 

ONES. 

Do  you  realize  what  this  means?  It 
means  that  you  can  send  thoughts  which 
are  healing  vibrations  to  dear  ones  or 
those  whom  you  wish  to  help,  when  they 
are  sick.  Your  good  thought  is  a  bless- 
ing and  by  good  I  mean  anything  and 
everything  that  is  beautiful  and  sympa- 
thetic and  cheering. 

One  of  the  best  ways  of  helping  your- 
self as  well  as  others,  is  to  make  a  prac- 
tice every  morning  and  every  evening  of 
sending  forth  your  thoughts  of  love 
and  good  will  to  the  world  at  large.  You 
can  put  it  into  a  simple  statement  some- 
thing like  this — "I  AM  HAPPY  AND  FULL  F 

OF  THE  JOY  OF  LIFE.  I  SEND  FORTH  MY 
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THOUGHT  OF  JOY  AND  GOOD  WILL  AND  PEACE 
TO  ALL  THE  WORLD." 

Repeat  this  until  you  really  feel  in 
your  heart  the  truth  of  it.  You  may 
know  then  that  you  are  sending  forth 
rays  of  influence  as  the  sun  sends  forth 
rays  of  light. 

Living  thus  with  your  mind  open  to 
the  perceiving  and  the  receiving  of  all 
that  is  fair  and  beautiful,  every  function 
of  your  body  will  be  performed  natural- 
ly and  healthfully. 
ing  hat  As  we  believe  that  everything  has  its 

its  place 

place  and  should  be  duly  respected  and 
cared  for,  so  the  body  must  be  properly 
fed  and  properly  clothed  and  cared  for. 
As  to  food,  the  main  thing  is  to  have  an 
understanding  of  that  which  is  nourish- 
ing and  wholesome  and  then  use  your 
judgment  as  to  what  you  eat. 

Plenty  of  fresh  pure  water,  from  two 
to  six  pints,  says  the  scientist,  the  body 
needs  every  day.  Cereals,  milk,  eggs, 

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vegetables,  whole  wheat  or  graham 
bread,  fruit  and  nuts,  with  meat  occa- 
sionally for  you  who  feel  the  need  of  it, 
constitute  a  large  enough  variety  from 
which  you  may  choose  a  satisfying  and 
hygienic  list  of  foods. 

I  merely  mention  these  matters  in 
order  that  you  may  think  enough  about 
them  to  realize  that  the  food  question  is 
an  important  one,  and  not  to  be  ignored 
or  trifled  with.  There  are  many  heal- 
ers of  disease  who  lay  the  cause  of 
either  health  or  disease  to  the  food  that 
is  eaten,  but  while  I  feel  that  it  is  im- 
portant, it  is  only  one  of  the  many  fac- 
tors to  be  considered. 

Then  there  is  the  question  of  air.  The 
body  requires  a  great  deal  of  fresh  pure 
air  in  order  that  the  lungs  may  do  their 
part  in  purifying  the  blood.  Exercise 
is  necessary  to  keep  the  blood  in  circula- 
tion. 

It  is  very  important  to  pay  attention 

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Keep  the  body  in  at  to  all  these  matters  and  thereby  keep  the 

perfect  a  condition 

body  in  as  perfect  a  condition  as  possi- 


ble that  it  may  perform  its  duties  and 
manifest  the  beauty  and  wholeness  of 
the  spirit. 

There  are  two  words  I  would  like  to 
have  you  think  about  earnestly,  and  they 
are,  common  sense.  This  is  one  of  the 
most  wonderful  faculties  given  to  the 
human  being.  With  it  as  the  balance 
wheel  for  every  thought  and  action,  and 
the  adjuster  of  all  relations,  you  cannot 
go  very  far  astray  in  the  understanding 
of  what  pertains  to  a  normal  healthy 
life.  In  another  lesson  I  will  give  more 
explicit  directions  for  exercises  in  refer- 
ence to  health-building,  yet  I  would  em- 
phasize again  and  again  the  necessity  of 
living  in  the  spirit  in  order  to  establish 
in  mind  and  in  body  that  perfect  har- 
health  mony  which  is  manifested  in  perfect 
health. 

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CHAPTER  XI 
The  Christ  Healing 

"The  power  which  enabled  the  saints 
to  work  miracles  is  still  alive,  and  acces- 
sible to  all.  It  is  the  power  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  and  if  you  live  in  God,  He  will 
overshadow  you  with  that  power,  and  it 
will  teach  you  the  laws  of  God  and  you 
will  be  guided  like  other  saints,  even  as 
the  apostles  Peter  and  Paul." 

— Paracelsus 

The  more  you  meditate  upon  the 
power  and  presence  of  God,  the  more 
faith  you  will  have  in  the  wonderful 
works  He  may  do  through  you.  For  if 
you  can  be  a  child-like  channel,  willing  #>« can  be  *  child~ 

like  channel 

to  receive,  willing  to  obey,  you,  too,  may 
say  with  Jesus:  "It  is  not  I,  but  the 
Father  who  dwelleth  in  me,  He  doeth 
the  works."  Through  power,  concentra- 
tion, meditation,  and  the  moment-by-mo- 

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ment  living,  as  though  in  His  presence, 
you  will  become  as  a  clean,  straight 
channel,  through  which  His  power  may 
be  manifested.  You  will  notice,  Beloved, 
that  this  thought,  fully  realized  will 
make  you  truly  humble  and  child-like. 
With  this  thought  you  will  NEVER  GROW 

ARROGANT,  PROUD  OR  SELF-ASSERTIVE,  BUT 
QUITE  THE  CONTRARY,  AND  THUS  IT  WILL 

Tour  faith  will  grow    COME     TO     PASS     THAT     YOUR     FAITH     WILL 
deeper  and  truer 

GROW  DEEPER  AND  TRUER  AS  YOU  REALIZE 
THAT  ALL  THINGS  ARE  POSSIBLE  WITH  GOD. 

Not  only  is  the  power  of  God  omni- 
potent the  greatest  of  all  powers  in  the 
world,  but  His  wisdom  is  absolute  and 
all-inclusive,  as  perfect  in  its  sphere  as 
the  perfect  love  in  which  there  can  be 
in  'which  there  ii  no  shadow  and  no  failure.  To  you,  His 

nojailure 

child,  God  has  given  the  body,  mind  and 
material  environments,  together  with 
all  that  goes  with  the  human  person- 
ality, as  your  plastic  material,  to  mould 
and  fashion  after  the  pattern  that 

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He,  as  your  inward  Teacher,  known  as 
the  Holy  Spirit,  gives  you. 

To  make  this  illustration  very  plain 
and  very  simple,  imagine  before  you  a 
class  of  Kindergarten  children,  each 
child  with  the  soft  clay  on  the  molding 
board  before  him.  He  is  given  a  pat-  He  ugi™  a  pattern 
tern,  it  may  be  an  apple,  a  potato,  a  tea- 
cup, a  flower  or  a  house.  These  models 
are  for  him  to  imitate.  The  teacher  to 
whom  he  looks  for  guidance  and  instruc- 
tion overlooks  his  work  and  helps  him 
in  moulding  the  clay  according  to  the 
image  of  the  pattern. 

You,  Beloved,  have  your  clay  before  YOU  hwtywr  day 

,         and  your  pattern 

you,  you  have  also  the  pattern,  that  is, 
the  ideal.  You  have  a  pattern  for 
health,  that  is  the  ideal  body.  You  have 
in  your  mind  a  pattern  of  a  home,  that 
is  your  ideal.  You  have  a  pattern  of 
right  conduct,  that,  too,  is  your  ideal. 
You  have  a  pattern  for  harmonious 
relationships  with  the  people  around 

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you,  that,  too,  is  an  ideal,  and  all  these 
ideals,  Beloved,  together  with  many 
more  are  the  patterns  which  the  Great 
Teacher  furnishes  to  you  and  which  He 
to  mould  helps  you  to  mould  and  fashion  if  you 

andfaikion 

will  continually  regard  His  instruction 
and  keep  your  vision  so  clear  of  all 
imperfections  that  it  may  see  only  the 
perfect  patterns. 

I  have  already  given  you  methods 
by  which  you  may  keep  yourself  so  close 
to  the  Teacher  and  so  faithfully  turned 
to  Him  for  direction  and  guidance  in 
everything  that  you  think  or  say  or  do, 
that  you  cannot  fail  to  grow  in  grace 
and  favor  with  Him;  this  means  when 
you  speak  to  Him  concerning  what  is  to 
be  done,  relying  upon  Him  to  give  you 
wisdom,  power  and  love,  your  word  will 
be  creative,  and  when  it  is  spoken  it 
will  be  as  though  He  spoke  it.  Then 
that  which  was  discordant  and  imper- 

Shall  become  harmon- 

iOUI  and  perfect  feet  shall  become  harmonious  and  per- 

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feet.  For  is  there  anything,  any  place, 
any  condition  which  can  be  in  a  state 
of  chaos  that  His  word  will  not  trans- 
form? 

As  to  the  healing  of  disease,  then,  you 
have  only  to  put  the  case  before  your 
Father  and  He,  through  you,  will  speak 
the  word  that  shall  bring  health  and  ne  -word  that  shall 

bring  htalth  and 

peace.  Sometimes  you  may  think  you  /*«« 
have  spoken  His  word,  and  yet  if  there 
is  any  fear  in  it,  if  there  is  any  of  your 
own  human  anxiety  or  doubt,  it  is  not 
His  word  and  it  will  not  bring  forth  the 
perfect  health. 

Only  according  to  your  ability  to  be 
a  perfect  channel  for  Him  can  He  use 
you  as  an  instrument  for  His  mighty 
works.  You  are  as  the  glass  globe  <<*  the  gia»  gioi* 

through  ivhich  the 

through  which  the   light  passes.    The  /£ 
crystal,   clear  glass   will   transmit   the 
purest  ray  of  light,  the  pink  glass  will 
send  forth  a  pink  radiance,  the  green,  a 
green  radiance,  and  so  on. 

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So  you,  Beloved,  so  long  as  your  heart 

has  fear  or  doubt  or  discouragement,  so 

long  will  the  quality  of  your  words  and 

thoughts    be    clouded,    but    when   your 

when  your  heart  heart  is  free  from  the  sense  of  burdens, 

iifree 

when  you  are  happy,  trusting  in  God's 

love,  YOUR  MIND  IS  AS  A  SHINING,  DIAMOND 
WHITE  CHANNEL  THEOUGH  WHICH  THE  RA- 
DIANT WHITE  LIGHT,  THE  GLORIOUS  SPLEN- 
DOR OF  GOD'S  WORD,  MAY  PASS  ON  ITS  WAY 
TO  THE  PERFORMANCE  OF  ALL  MANNER  OF 
REDEEMING  WORKS. 

Attend  faithfully,  then,  to  your 
prayers,  to  your  times  for  concentration 
and  meditation  upon  holy  things,  until 
you  are  filled  and  thrilled  with  this 
ar-,* faith  k  th,  clean>  clear-cut  faith  in  the  saving  power 
of  the  Christ. 

For  know  this,  Beloved,  the  working 
power  of  God  in  the  human  soul  is  called 
His  Son,  the  Only  Begotten,  the  Ee- 
deemer  and  Saviour,  the  Christ.  When 
you  have  passed  through  that  wonder- 
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ful  change  which  makes  you  give  over  which  makes  you 

over  your  human 

all  your  human  faculties  and  powers, 


which  makes  you  able  even  to  give  your 
will  and  your  desires,  the  human  in  you 
is  born  into  the  new  creature  in  Christ, 
and  in  that  mystical  moment,  you,  that 
is,  your  human  personality,  will  be 
anointed  with  the  descent  of  the  three- 
fold power  of  the  God-Head. 

IN  THAT  MOMENT  THIS  UNCTION  WILL 
MAKE  YOU  A  EEPEESENTATIVE  OF  THE  CREA- 
TIVE  POWER  OF  THE  FATHER,  THE  MANI- 
FESTING POWER  OF  THE  CHRIST,  AND 
QUICKENING  POWER  OF  THE  HoLY  SPIRIT. 

In  the  consciousness  of  this  power  of 
the  Trinity  when  you  speak  a  word  for 
healing,  the  power  of  the  Father  will  go 
forth  into  the  image  of  health,  the  type 
of  which  you  perceive  to  be  the  ideal 
body  of  your  patient.  Into  your  word 
will  also  be  sent  the  manifesting  power 
of  the  Christ,  and  the  quickening  power 

n    .1         tN     •     -i  n       A    ji        i          T  MI   -i  e    eanp  -w 

of  the  Spirit,  so  that  the  healing  will  be  ^  accomplished 

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accomplished  verily  in  the  name  of  the 
Father,  the  Son  and  the  Holy  Spirit. 
ca«  you  concede  of      Can  conceive  of  this  wonderful 

this  •wonderful  9 

fower  power  and  possibility  as  belonging  to 
you,  Beloved?  Can  you  clothe  yourself 
thus  with  the  divine  atttributes  by  giv- 
ing yourself  wholly,  completely  and  with 
all  your  heart  and  soul  to  the  doing  of 
God's  work? 

Then  BE  NOT  AFRAID  TO  SPEAK  THE  HEAL- 
ING WORD  FOR  ALL  MANNER  OF  DISEASES, 
FOR  ALL  MANNER  OF  DISCORDANT  AND  EVIL 

CONDITIONS,  for  they  may  all  be  healed. 
It  is  not  for  you  to  question  if  this  or 
that  which  seems  impossible  to  cure,  can 
be  cured ;  that  is  not  your  part ;  you  are 
the  word-speaker,  you  are  the  instru- 
ment. All  that  is  of  the  human  self 
must  be  denied,  put  away  and  forgot- 
r0u  -will  be  abu  to  ten.  If  you  can  do  this,  you  will  be  able 
to  follow  the  footsteps  of  the  Great 
Healer,  even  Jesus,  who  promised  that 
you  and  the  disciples  who  were  to  come 

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after  Him  should  do  even  greater  works 
than  He  did.  He  meant  by  this,  that  the 
same  Christ  working  in  you,  as  it  worked 
in  Him,  would  redeem  the  world  from 
its  sin,  sickness  and  death.  For  it  is  the 
Christ,  Beloved,  the  Christ  of  God,  who 
is  the  manifestor  of  God  and  who  is  to 
be  manifest  as  God  in  you. 

Now  can  you  not  say  with  Paul,  "7 
can  do  all  things  through  Christ  which 
strengtheneth  me."  With  faith  in  this 
truth  in  your  heart  and  your  mind,  you  rmemndiemymr- 

.  „    self  and  your  <world 

can  redeem,  not  only  yourself,  but,  it 
they  will,  your  family,  your  friends, 
your  neighbors,  your  world,  from  dis- 
ease of  mind  or  body. 

It  is  not  any  specific  formula  that  I 
would  give  you,  but  rather  is  it  my 
heart's  desire  to  awaken  in  you  such 
absolute  truth  and  faith  in  God  that  you 
will  give  yourself  in  the  manner  I  have 
described  to  Him  for  His  use. 

IN  SO  DOING  YOU  WILL  BE  INSPIRED  TO 


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Speak  tht  right  word   SPEAK   THE  RIGHT   WORD   NO   MATTER  WHAT 
no  matter  "what 

the  need    THE    NEED;     YOU    WILL    BE    INSPIRED    TO    DO 

THE  RIGHT  THING  NO  MATTER  WHAT  THE 
CONDITION. 

This  means  if  you  have  one  in  your 
home  lying  sick  you  will  not  need  to 
rush  hither  and  thither  wondering  what 
word  you  can  speak  that  will  heal  him  or 
her;  you  will  go  calmly  about  in  the 
in  the  mida  of  the  midst  of  this  great  white  light  of  His 

great  white  light 

presence  doing  with  your  hands  that 
which  will  make  your  dear  one  comfort- 
able, making  every  outward  condition 
to  conform  to  the  ideal  or  pattern  that  is 
given  you  at  the  moment,  of  what  is  best 
and  right,  knowing  that  in  the  presence 
of  the  Supreme  Power,  you,  like  Jesus, 
can  rebuke  the  fever  by  giving  it  no  place 
or  power;  you,  seeing  beyond  the  veil 
of  the  flesh  to  that  perfect  pattern  that 
God  gave  will  be  able  to  speak  to  the 
soul,  and  say  with  authority:  "I  SEE 

YOU  AS  GOD  MADE  YOU,  PERFECT  AND  SOUND 
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AND    WHOLE   IN    EVEEY   PAKTJ    REJOICE    FOB    Sound  and  whole  in 
ff  .    rvery  part 

HIS   GIFT   OF   HEALTH,   IT   IS  YOUBS   NOW." 

Or,  if  there  is  one  in  your  circle  of 
dear  ones  who  has  long  suffered  from 
some  disease  of  mind  or  body,  you, 

BECAUSE    YOU    DWELL    SO    CONTINUALLY    IN    Because  you  dwell 

continually  in  the 
THE    SECBET    PLACE,    AND    LOOK    SO    FAITH-    ucret  flace 

FULLY  UPON   THE   GLOBY   OF  THE  PEBFECT, 

will  be  able  to  hold  in  your  mind  the 
pattern  of  this  one  as  he  should  be ;  you 
will  carry  him  in  your  mind  and  in  your 
heart  tenderly,  patiently,  knowing  that 
in  the  fulness  of  time  he,  too,  will  awake 
in  the  image  and  likeness  of  the  Perfect 
One,  and  when  that  time  comes,whether 
it  be  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye  or  after 
many  years,  it  will  be  THE  PEBFECT 

MANIFESTATION  OF  THE  PEBFECT  PATTEBN 
WHICH  YOU  HAVE  SEEN  AND  SPOKEN  INTO 
EXISTENCE. 

All  this  means,  Beloved,  that  you  are 
to  be  patient,  doing  what  your  hands 
find  to  do,  one  thing  at  a  tune,  knowing 

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g  it  it  God  it  is  God  who  heals  the  sick,  who  gives 

ivho  heals 

power  to  the  faint,  who  sets  the  captive 
free.  Let  your  constant  thought  be  the 
same  as  that  of  the  Master,  who,  reading 
out  of  the  book,  said,  "The  Spirit  of 
the  Lord  is  upon  me,  because  he  hath 
anointed  me  to  preach  the  gospel  to  the 
poor;  he  hath  sent  me  to  heal  the  broken 
hearted,  to  preach  deliverance  to  the 
captives,  and  recovering  of  sight  to  the 
blind,  to  set  at  liberty  them  that  are 
bruised,  to  preach  the  acceptable  year 
of  the  Lord." 


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CHAPTER  XII 
Passing  into  the  Beyond 

"All  which  is  real  now  remaineth 

And  fadeth  never! 

The  Hand  which  upholds  thee  now  sus- 
taineth 

The  soul  forever!" 

Beloved,  there  is  one  event  which  is 
commonly  looked  upon  as  the  greatest 
calamity  that  can  come  to  the  human 
being.  It  is  called  death,  and  because 
it  takes  the  loved  ones  out  of  sight,  the 
heart  mourns,  and  says  they  are  dead. 

This  cannot  be.  The  body  dies,  but 
the  spirit  lives. 

If  you  can  only  remember  this,  you 
will  not  so  quickly  give  way  to  the  awful- 
ness  of  despair. 

Look  at  Nature,  Beloved.  See  how 
much  is  there  revealed,  to  prove  that 

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darkness,  destruction  and  death  are  only 
phases  of  change  in  the  conditions  of 
the  material  world. 

If  you  judge  according  to  appear- 
ances, you  may  think  death  is  the  end  of 
life.  But  it  is  not  so  in  the  natural 
world. 

There  are  seasons  when  the  earth  is 
shrouded  in  mist,  when  the  clouds  hang 
low,  when  impetuous  rain  drops  beat 
against  the  window,  and  the  sun  seems 
lost.  The  beauty  of  a  day  that  dawned 
in  roseate  glory  is  completely  destroyed, 
and  Nature  weeps. 

Is  it  for  the  light  that  is  gone,  is  it  for 
the  beauty  that  will  never  return? 

No.  There  is  a  deeper  meaning  to 
'*"*'  Nature's  sorrow.  The  light  is  not  gone, 
the  beauty  is  not  lost.  Back  of  the  veil 
is  the  light  that  is  always  shining,  the 
beauty  that  ever  is. 

See!  The  tears  cease,  the  veil  is  lift- 
ed. Once  more  the  radiant  day  shines 

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upon  the  earth  clothed  in  a  greater  beau- 
ty than  ever  before.  Look  at  the  trees ; 
see  their  shining  leaves  glistening  with 
diamonds ;  see  the  grass  in  its  new  glory 
of  cleanliness  and  emerald  sheen;  smell 
the  sweet  odors  that  come  from  flower 
and  field.  Hear  the  happy  chorus  of 
bird  music.  Imagine  the  new  life  start- 
ing from  the  roots  of  all  green  and  grow- 
ing things. 
Nature's  experiences  are  types  of  T>/>« o 

t  and  mine 

yours  and  mine,  but  there  may  be  a  vast 
difference  between  her  attitude  and  ours 
in  receiving  them.  In  Nature's  heart 
there  was  no  bitterness  that  the  light 
had  fled,  that  her  beauteous  child,  the 
day,  was  lost.  There  was  harmony,  not 
discord,  and  thus  the  Law  did  its  perfect 
work  of  refreshing,  renewing,  regener- 
ating. 

So  it  will  for  you,  if  you  will  only 
cease  grieving,  and  let  the  thought  of 
life,  not  death,  possess  you. 

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ur  loved  one  has      Change,  Beloved,  is  not  of  the  spirit, 

not  changed 

so  your  loved  one  has  not  changed. 
Death  is  but  the  open  door  into  another 
mansion  of  the  Father's  house. 

If  you  really  know  this  to  be  so,  with 
all  the  assurance  of  your  heart  and  soul. 
do  you  think  you  could  mourn  and  weep 
and  give  way  to  despair? 

Ah,  no,  Beloved ;  you  might  be  sad  for 
a  season,  as  it  is  quite  natural  you  should 
miss  and  long  for  the  presence  of  the 
one  so  dear,  but  in  thinking  of  her  or 
him  as  having  gone  to  new  scenes  and 
YOU  -would  toon  pleasant  work,  you  would  soon  rejoice 

rejoice 

instead  of  grieve,  and  you  would  come 
to  look  upon  death  as  an  OPPORTUNITY 

FOB      CONTINUED      PRIVILEGES      AND      JOYS, 

rather  than  as  the  destroyer  of  life. 

This  view  of  the  matter  will  change 
your  whole  conception  of  and  mental  at- 
titude towards  death,  and  instead  of 
mourning  or  wearing  garments  of  dull, 
cheerless  black  as  a  symbol  of  death, 

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you  will  want  to  wear  white,  or  light,   TOU  win  -want  to 

•wear  <u>Aite,  or  light 

joyous  colors  as  token  of  your  belief  in  jy«u  «/«•* ™ token 

of  your  belief  in  life 

life — the  life  everlasting.  everiastins 

I  know,  oh,  so  well!  how  the  heart 
yearns,  how  the  days  drag,  how  the 
nights  torture,  when  one  gives  way*  to  the 
despair  of  death,  but  I  also  know,  dear 
friends,  how  a  mind  DETERMINED  TO  LOOK  Determined  to  look 

at  lift 

AT  LIFE  and  not  death,  at  reality  not 
seeming,  CAN  BE  THE  CONQUEROR,  not  the 
conquered. 

I  know,  too,  how  hard  it  is  to  break 
away  from  thoughts,  brooding  and  ten- 
der, of  the  loved  one,  yet  it  MUST  BE 
DONE,  if  you  would  win  the  victory,  and 
be  the  brave  helpmeet  of  God  that  you 
should  be. 

For  when  you  can  carry  out  in  your 
faith  and  life  God's  great  intention  con- 
cerning the  BENEFICENCE  OF  DEATH  YOU  The  beneficence 

will  indeed  be  as  a  "light  set  upon  a 
hill"  not  only  to  those  who  are  still  walk- 
ing in  the  valley  of  the  shadow  of  death 

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without  His  rod  and  staff,  but  you  will 
be  the  means  of  UNTOLD  HELP  AND  BLESS- 
ING to  your  dear  departed. 

Do  you  wonder  how  this  can  be,  Be- 
loved? 

Because  every  selfish  grief-burdened 
thought  of  yours  holds  your  dear  one 
down  to  earth.  For  his  (or  her)  sake 

Toumua  be  cheerful   yOU     MUST     NOT     GRIEVE.      You     UlUSt     be 

of  your 
not  of 
yourself 


and   think    of  your  T    .  i   •     i        j>  i   •       / 

iwed  one,  not  of  chceriul,  and  joyous  and  think  of  his  (or 


her)  new  and  beautiful  experiences, 
rather  than  yield  yourself  to  dark  pic- 
tures of  your  own  despair. 

A  lady  who  had  lost  a  darling  child 
mourned  deeply  over  her  loss,  until  one 
night  she  had  a  dream.  She  dreamed 
that  she  was  in  heaven  and  that  she  saw 
a  procession  of  little  children  carrying 
flowers,  and  singing  as  they  went  joyful- 
ly along  the  beautiful  flower-bordered 
path. 

Eagerly  she  looked  for  her  child,  but 
for  a  long  time  she  looked  in  vain.  At 

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last  she  saw  the  little  one  at  the  very 
end  of  the  procession,  but  instead  of 
bearing  flowers  with  happy  song,  the 
child  was  in  tears.  She  was  carrying  a 
pitcher  filled  with  something  so  heavy 
she  could  scarcely  bear  up  with  the 
weight  of  it. 

Instantly  the  mother's  eyes  filled  and 
tears  fell  fast,  yet  though  she  would 
gladly  have  gone  forward  to  help  her 
darling,  she  was  unable  to  do  so,  not 
even  though  the  burden  seemed  growing  _.  ,  . 

0     The  burden  seemed 

every  moment  heavier,  for  the  overbur-  *""""*  *Mvier 
dened  child. 

When  the  procession  had  passed  the 
grieving  mother  turned  to  a  messenger 
standing  near,  and  in  anguish  asked  the 
reason  her  child  had  the  heavy  pitcher 
to  carry  instead  of  beautiful  flowers  as 
the  others. 

"The  pitcher  is  filled  with  your  tears, 
and  the  more  you  weep,  the  heavier  it  TA,  moreyou  -weep 
becomes,"  replied  the  angel,  "and  the  become* 

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heart  of  the  child  is  sad,  because  it  is 
still  bound  to  yours.  She  weeps  because 
you  weep,  and  she  can  never  be  happy 
or  do  her  part  with  the  others,  until  you 
cease  from  grieving  and  can  rejoice  for 
Iner,  and  with  her." 

Then  the  mother  awoke  and  from  that 
time  put  away  her  mourning  and  ceased 
from  her  weeping. 

Can  you  not  see  the  truth  of  this  teach- 
ing that  was  given  her  in  a  dream! 

Heed  it,  dear  ones,  for  it  is  for  you 
and  all  who  believe  in  death  rather  than 
life. 

The  body  dies,  but  the  spirit  lives. 

To  THE  SPIRIT  THERE  IS  NO  DEATH ! 

Rejoice,  dear  heart !  Take  in  the  larger 

view 
And  know  the  larger  life.     Through  a 

jeweled 
Door  hath  thy  loved  one  entered  into 

rarer 

Privilege  and  surer  joy. 
Fret  not  against  thy  loneliness,  but  lose 

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Thyself  in  that  great  Love  in  which  a 
perfect 

Trust  unites  thee  with  the  One  unseen. 

In  this  true  Love  when  grief  hath  faded 
out 

As  night  'fore  day,  there  is  the  inter- 
change 

Of  thought,  the  mingling  of  a  common 

joy, 

The  working  out  of  every  aspiration, 
In  the  wondrous  endlessness  we  call 
Eternal  life. 
Perchance  there  may  be  tunes  when  thy 

heart  is  lonely 
As  when  the  form  was  lost  to  sight,  but 

the  change 

Is  in  thy  consciousness,  thy  view  of  life, 
Thy  oneness  with  the  outer  world,  rather 
Than  the  inner  Light;  or,  there  may  be 

periods 
Of  silence,  but  e'en  in  this,  if  thou  but 

hold 
The  Light,  thy  heart  remaineth  glad,  and 

Faith  and  Love — 
Twin  angels — lift  thee  on  their  wings, 

and  carry 
Thee    above    all    clouds    of    anguished 

grieving. 


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CHAPTER  XIII 
The  Law  of  Prosperity 

"And  in  every  work  that  he  began  in 
the  service  of  the  house  of  God  and  in 
the  Law,  and  in  the  commandments  to 
seek  his  God,  he  did  it  with  all  his  heart, 
and  prospered."— II.  Chron.  xxxi,  21. 

You  ought  to  be  prosperous,  Beloved, 
when  you  naiiy  know  and  when  you  really  know  that  it  is  the 
same  law  that  has  brought  all  your 
other  gifts,  you  will  be.  It  is  this  Law 
that  has  given  you  your  soul,  mind, 
body,  that  has  provided  you  with  all 
your  wonderful  faculties  for  use  and  en- 
joyment. It  can  provide  you  with  an 
abundance  of  all  things.  You  must, 
therefore,  believe  that  it  is  possible  for 
you  to  be  prosperous,  that  it  is  possible 
for  you  to  appropriate  from  the  uni- 
versal store-house,  for  there  is  an  abun- 
dance of  supply. 

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The  earth  and  all  that  it  contains  is 
filled  with  the  riches  God  has  provided 
for  His  children.  So  you  must  believe 
that  there  is  plenty,  not  poverty  for  you.  There  hpitnty 

for  y  tut 

The  question  is  how  will  you  appro- 
priate it?  Yes,  this  is  the  question. 

I  have  already  told  you  how  to  appro- 
priate health,  I  have  explained  the  neces- 
sity of  recognizing  the  strength,  the  life 
and  all  that  makes  for  health  as  being 
already  yours. 

The  seed  of  God  within  you  which  is 
your  higher  self  is  whole  and  it  can 
never  know  sickness.  I  have  told  you 
that  by  acknowledging  this  higher  self, 
you  begin  to  attract  conditions  from  the 
outer  world  which  correspond  to  that 
inner  reality.  You  have  learned,  there- 
fore, that  the  ESSENCE  OF  GOD  WITHIN  is 

THE      SECBET      ATTRACTING      POWER      THAT 
WEAVES  THE  GARMENT  OF  HEALTH. 

In  the  same  way  this  same  seed  of 
God,  your  higher  self  may  attract  its  May  attract  iti 
environments.    You  ask  how?  «iww«««* 

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Listen!  Beloved,  you  remember  the 
Master  said,  "Thou  hast  been  faithful 
over  a  few  things,  I  will  make  thee  ruler 
over  many  things."  He  is  saying  that 
to  you. 

What  does  he  mean  by  a  "few 
things?"  Does  he  not  mean  human 
weaknesses  which  beset  you, — your 
fears,  your  doubts,  your  tempers?  Yes, 
he  has  given  you  charge  over  these 
conquer youruif  and  things.  When  you  have  learned  to  rule 

you   may   win  your  •-,-,•,  •  j-i         i 

over  them  you  will  be  given  the  larger 
kingdom.  Can  you  see  the  law? 

It  is  this.  When  you  have  learned  to 
conquer  your  fears,  you  will  be  strong, 
you  will  be  hopeful,  you  will  have  knowl- 
edge, courage  and  judgment,  and  the  re- 
sult will  be  that  FROM  YOUR  PERSONALITY 

THERE  WILL  EMANATE  THE  VIBRATION  THAT 
WILL  INSPIRE  CONFIDENCE  IN  EVERYONE 
WHO  SEES  YOU. 

Your  brow  will  not  be  wrinkled  with 
care;  it  will  be  placid,  open  and  pleas- 

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ant,  your  eye  will  beam  with  brightness 

and  courage.    Whatever  you  do  will  be  whatever  you  d» 

tinctured  with 

tinctured  with  your  quality  and  strength.  y°»r  q«"iity 

Do  you  not  see  how  this  will  make  you 
attractive  if  you  are  a  worker,  and  need 
work?  Will  not  those  who  employ  work- 
ers see  you  and  want  you  to  work  for 
them  ?  This  is  the  'beginning  of  your  suc- 
cess. If  you  have  the  qualities  within, 
so  plainly  written  on  your  face  and 
form,  so  plainly  shown  in  your  conver- 
sation, YOU  CANNOT  BE  OTHERWISE  THAN 

A  great  human 
A  GREAT  HUMAN   MAGNET.  magnet 

How  easy  to  see  the  fulfillment  of  the 
promise  that  you  will  be  made  ruler  over 
many  things,  because  with  all  these 
splendid  mental  and  spiritual  virtues 
you  will  show  an  exact  sense  of  justice 
in  dealing  with  your  fellow  men.  You 
will  be  known  as  one  who  does  things 
according  to  the  Golden  Rule. 

All  this  means  that  you  will  be  con- 
tinually sowing  seed  and  that  you  will 

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be  reaping  harvests,  some  thirty,  sixty, 
and  an  hundred  fold,  for  as  you  sow,  you 
will  reap.  This  is  the  eternal  law. 

Can  you  not  see  now,  how  you  can  de- 

liberately place  yourself  in  the  way  of 

being  prosperous!    But  you  must   re- 

member that  it  is  not  in  small  things 

U  must  prove  the  only,  that  you  can  prove  this  law,  it  is  in 

law  in  all  ivays 

all  ways. 

You  should  not  only  have  enough 
money  to  supply  your  crying  necessities, 
but  you  should  have  enough  to  provide 
even  luxuries  if  you  want  them.  You 

SHOULD  BE  ABLE  TO  COMMAND  AND  USE  ALL 
THE  RESOUKCES  THAT  YOU  DESIRE  IN  THE 
MATERIAL,  AS  WELL  AS  THE  SPIRITUAL  AND 
MENTAL,  WORLD. 

I  have  already  told  you  how  to  be- 
gin, but  remember  that  you  are  only  the 
th  seed  sower.    It  is  God  who  giveth  the  in- 


the  increau  T  „  .  •.  -,   . 

crease.  If  you  sow  thoughts  or  acts 
which  are  selfish,  you  will  just  as  surely 
have  to  be  shut  out  of  some  of  the  privi- 

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leges  and  possessions  in  the  world,  as 
you  have  shut  others  out  of  privileges 
which  you  claimed  for  yourself. 

If  your  thought  is  loving,  you  cannot 
help  giving.  If  you  give,  you  will  re- 
ceive, but  if  your  thought  is  selfish, 
keeping  what  you  have  and  enjoy,  shut 
up  within  yourself,  you  will  shut  the 
door  against  the  gifts  which  otherwise 
might  flow  your  way.  You  see  again 
this  is  the  law  of  attraction.  The  Iaw  '/ 

attraction 

Whatever  is  unpleasant  without,  is 
the  correspondence  of  something  or 
some  quality  within  yourself. 

Perhaps  you  have  long  feared  pov- 
erty. That  has  made  you  afraid  to  spend 
the  money  you  have.  It  has  made  you 
small  and  petty  and  fretful ;  it  has  made 
you  brood  over  the  possibility  of  even 
being  without  the  necessities  of  life.  The 
natural  result  of  this  kind  of  thinking  The  natural  remit 
would  be  poverty,  extreme  privations. 

Now  let  us  see  if  we  can  trace  this 

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thought  of  poverty  to  its  beginning. 

Here  it  is.  Away  back  in  the  begin- 
ning when  Adam  and  Eve  were  driven 
out  of  Paradise,  they  were  told  that 
they  would  henceforth  have  to  earn 
their  food  by  the  sweat  of  their  brow. 
This  was  the  result  of  their  disobedi- 
ence. 

In  the  Garden  of  Eden  they  had  all 
things.  Nothing  was  lacking.  They 
walked  and  talked  with  God.  They  knew 
God  was  the  Source  of  all,  the  Provider 
of  all,  but  when  they  were  driven  out 
They  lost  memory  of  they  lost  this  communion  with  God,  and 

the  bounteous  supply 

they  lost  memory  of  the  bounteous  sup- 
ply. 

That  sense  of  separation  from  God  is 
the  heritage  of  the  natural  man  today, 
as  it  has  been  through  all  the  ages. 

One  way  »  change          Tn6re   is    °^J   One   Wa7   to    change   this 

hn ufa!atiln  sense  of  separation  and  that  is  by  the 
word  of  reconciliation. 
Jesus  came  to  speak  it  and  to  teach 

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you  and  all  men  to  speak  it.  It  is  the 
word  of  Love,  the  word  of  Faith,  the 
word  acknowledging  God  as  being  still 
the  Father.  By  the  power  of  that  word 

*  •  tne  ivora 

the  first  man  Adam  was  changed  into 
the  last  Adam,  a  quickening  spirit,  the 
Eedeemer. 

THE  CHANGE  IN  YOU  FBOM  THE  FIRST 
TO  THE  LAST  ADAM,  MEANS  THE  REDEMP- 
TION FROM  EVERY  ILL  OF  HUMANITY. 

Now,  Beloved,  the  story  of  Adam  is 
your  story.  You  talk  poverty,  disease 
and  failure  because  you  have  been  living 
the  part  of  the  first  Adam.  You  have 
inherited  the  belief  that  comes  from 
mortality,  the  belief  that  you  have  in- 
herited poverty,  disease  and  death,  but 

THROUGH     THE     GOSPEL     OF     CHRIST,     THE 

ONLY  BEGOTTEN  SON,  YOU  MAY  FIND  THE   TOU  may  find  the -way 

-I-,  back  to  Eden 

WAY  BACK  TO  EDEN,  THE  PLACE  OF  PLENTY, 
PEACE  AND  BEAUTY;  THE  PLACE  WHERE 
YOU  MAY  TALK  WITH  GOD  AND  BE  HEIR  TO 

ALL  THE  RICHES  OF  His  KINGDOM  ! 
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Study  carefully  the  Christ-Gospel, 
live  the  Christ  life,  let  the  same  mind  be 
in  you  that  was  in  Christ  Jesus,  and  no 
good  thing  will  be  withheld  from  you. 
This  is  not  mere  religious  talk,  it  is  the 
LIVING  TRUTH,  and  only  the  TBUTH  will 

Tou  mua  accept    SaVC  yOU,  but  YOU  MUST  ACCEPT  AND  PRAC- 
and  practice  it 

TICE   IT. 

I  have  told  you  throughout  all  these 
lessons  that  you  must  turn  to  God  and 
acknowledge  Him  as  the  Friend  who  will 
never  fail,  as  the  Helper  who  will  al- 
ways help.  I  mean  this  literally.  I 
er  you  mean  that  whenever  you  have  a  need  for 
money,  instead  of  getting  worried  and 
distressed,  because  you  see  no  way  to 
get  what  you  need,  GO  TO  GOD  IN  PRAYER  ; 
ask  Him  to  open  the  way  for  you. 

Place  yourself  wholly  upon  His  care 
at  the  same  time  holding  yourself  ready 
to  receive  His  counsel.  This  may  come 
to  you  directly  after  you  have  prayed,  or 
it  may  not  come  to  you  until  some  other 

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time,  in  the  middle  of  the  night,  or  in 
the  morning  as  you  are  going  to  your 
work,  or  even  later. 

YOUR  PAET  IS  TO  REMAIN  CALM,  EX- 
PECTANT, AND  HAPPY.  You  are  to  do  what 
your  hands  find  to  do  whatever  that  may 
be,  but  you  are  at  all  times  to  keep  your 
mind  towards  God. 

It  is  this  attitude  of  mind  that  will 
remove  from  you  the  veil  of  separation.  nam*e  from  you  the 

•veil  of  separation 

It  is  this  constant  thinking  and  living  in 
joyous  faith  that  will  enable  you  to  enter 
into  the  secret  place  and  to  refrain  from 
judging  according  to  appearances. 

What  if  your  supply  is  exhausted? 
Your  magnificent  faith  will  bring  relief 
the  moment  you  really  need  it. 

This  has  been  proven  over  and  over 
again.  Not  only  have  persons  who  are 
living  the  faith  life  proven  this,  but 
many  grand  works  have  been  done. 

George  Muller  on  his  bare  faith  built 
and  established  a  home  for  orphans  in 

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England.    The  Rev.   Cullis  established 
the    Consumptives'    Home    in    Boston 
through  the  solely  through  the  prayers  of  faith. 

prayert  of  faith 

THERE  ABE  MANY  AND  COUNTLESS  FAITH- 
FILLED  SOULS  WHO  HAVE  PROVEN  GOD  AS 

THE  KEEPER  OP  PROMISES,  THE  GIVER  OF 
ALL  GOOD  GIFTS. 

Read  carefully  and  prayerfully  the 
eleventh  chapter  of  Hebrews,  and  then 
begin  to  practice  all  these  things  for 
yourself,  for  the  law  is  just  the  same 
now  as  it  has  ever  been,  and  as  it  ever 
will  be. 

Every  day,  Beloved,  living  this  faith- 
filled  life  will  bring  you  new  proofs  of 
the  great  abundance  which  is  yours,  if 
you  will  lay  hold  upon  it,  not  only  by 
By  prayer,  by  acts  prayer,  by  acts,  and  faith,  but  by  the 

and  the    large 

expectancy  iarge  expectancy  which  your  knowledge 
of  the  law  will  give  you. 

You  have  never  a  doubt  but  that  you 
may  have  your  portion  of  air  which  is 
circulating  throughout  the  earth,  and 

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which  is  for  you  to  appropriate  to  any 
extent  that  you  wish.  You  have  never  a 
doubt  of  the  sunlight  that  will  fall  upon 
your  house  and  through  your  windows, 
for  you  know  there  is  sunshine  for  all 
houses  that  may  ever  be  built.  There  is  nen  «  a  sufficient 

cc.   •  i        «     11   it.'  £          n    iUfPlyf<>rallftofle 

a  sufficient  supply  of  all  things  for  all 
people.  The  earth  is  filled  with  riches. 
Appropriate  your  share  and  you  will 
demonstrate  the  law  of  prosperity  ac- 
cording to  the  measure  of  your  faith 
and  your  works. 

THE  WAY  TO  INVITE  PKOSPEEITY. 

(By  one  who  has  tried  and  tested  ihis 

law  in  the  commercial  world.) 
Believe  in  it !  Look  for  it  I  See  it ! 
Practice  it!    Sing  it!    That  which  you 
give  your  attention  to>  multiplies.  As  a 
man  thinketh  in  his  heart,  so  is  he,  ap- 
plies to  the  material  things  that  come  Affn" to  the  ma- 

tcrial  things 

to  him  as  much  as  to  the  conditions  that 
come  to  his  body  as  the  result  of  his 
thinking.  Think  continually  then  of  the 

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supply  of  money,  for  money  in  the  mate- 
The  great  aneriai  ria}  wori<j  corresponds  to  the  blood  in 

system  • 

the  physical  body. 

Did  you  ever  think  of  the  great  arte- 
rial system  in  the  body  through  which 
the  rich  red  blood  is  pumped,  supplying 
the  most  minute  cells  with  the  necessary 
amount  of  life-giving  nourishment? 

This  flow  of  blood  is  greatly  influenced 
by  the  mental  action.  A  person  turns 
pale  or  red  according  as  a  circumstance 
affects  him  mentally.  Also  when  the 
mind  is  concentrated  upon  any  particu- 
lar part  of  the  body  there  is  instantly  a 
quickened  circulation  carrying  the  blood 
toward  that  point.  There  have  been 
many  cases  reported  where  it  was  possi- 
ble to  consciously  distribute  the  blood 
throughout  the  body.  I  state  this  simply 
as  an  illustration  of  how  you  can  go  to 
HOW  ywt  can  go  w°rk  to  consciously  attract  and  distri- 
k  bute  this  other  fluid  (money)  as  I  will 
call  it  for  the  moment. 

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Man  has  built  for  himself  a  gigantic 
arterial  system  through  which  flows  a 
constant  stream  of  this  great  commodity  <*  <°»aant  stream 

of  this  great 

and  necessity  called  MONEY.    It  brings  commodity 
to   us   food,   clothing,   shelter   and  the 
means,  not  only  to  supply  our  own  needs, 
but  also  to  reach  out  and  help  others 
who  are  destitute  and  suffering. 

Humanity  is  the  great  body,  com- 
merce is  the  avenue,  the  veins,  through 
which  the  vital  fluid  flows  and  all  we 
have  to  do  is  to  recognize  that  while 
man  has  built  up  the  system,  GOD  is  THE  God  is  the  «««*«««« 

and  source  of  supply 
STOREHOUSE  AND  SOURCE  OF  SUPPLY. 

The  earth  with  all  its  boundless 
riches,  its  hidden  treasures,  its  fruitful 
territories  of  grain  and  fruits,  all,  all 
are  the  Lord's.  Freely  has  He  provided 
for  His  people,  but  each  one  must  make 
his  connection  with  the  Source  in  order 
to  draw  his  supply.  Each  person  corre- 
sponds to  one  of  the  cells  of  this  great 
body  and  must  ever  be  open  to  receive 

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the  inflow  and  also  to  be  in  turn  the 
channel  through  which  the  life-giving 
properties  of  its  nature  may  pass  on. 

Connect  your ulf  con-   THEREFORE.       CONNECT       YOURSELF       CON- 
Kiously  with  the 

lource  SCIOUSLY  WITH  THE  SOURCE !    CLAIM  YOUR 

SUPPLY  NOW.  KEEP  YOUR  CHANNEL  OPEN 

BY  GIVING  FREELY  FROM  YOUR  OWN  STORE- 
HOUSE, YOUR  PRESENT  SUPPLY. 

You  will  have  to  give  "  value  re- 
ceived," for  remember,  commerce  is  the 
artery,  and  even  though  your  work  may 
seem  to  you  far  removed  from  your  idea 
of  commercial  life,  yet  it  is  all  impor- 
tant in  its  own  place.  Do  gladly,  will- 
ingly, the  task  at  hand  and  thus  keep 
your  circulation  free  and  clear. 

There  may  be  testing  times  when  you 

will  almost  despair  and  wonder  if  there 

is  any  truth  in  this  universal  supply. 

Tht  »gnt  of  your  These  tests  are  the  signs  of  your  great 

great  opportunity 

opportunity;  they  are  the  preparation 
for  great  success,  for  if  YOU  STAND  FIRM 

AND  CONCENTRATE  UPON  THE  SOURCE,  YOU 
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WILL  OPEN  THE  GATES  TO  SUCH  A  FLOOD  OF 
THE  CIRCULATING  FLUID  THAT  YOUE  HEART 
WILL  OVERFLOW  WITH  JOY. 

It  may  not  always  come  in  the  form  of 
money,  but  it  will  be  the  things  that 
money  buys,  and  that  will  serve  just  as 
well  as  the  money  itself. 

Come!  Claim  your  birthright  to  an  c/«*  your  birthright 
inlet  to  God's  bounty!  It  is  already 
awaiting  you.  You  never  really  needed 
a  thing  that  was  not  ready  and  waiting 
for  you  to  reach  out  and  take.  The 
trouble  lies  in  the  fact  that  you  did  not 
know  it,  and  so  wrapped  yourself  up  in 
a  cloud  of  despair  and  felt  that  you 
were  cut  off. 

Do  not  think  that  you  have  to  labor 
for  your  share.  No,  the  Father  has  im- 
posed no  such  burden  upon  you.  If  you 
take  the  right  attitude  in  this  matter  #>«  ">**  the  right 

-    attitude  in  t hit  matter 

you  will  find  that  you  have  plenty  of 
time  to  not  only  do  your  appointed  tasks, 
but  time  for  recreation,  study  and  devo- 
tion. 

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To  give  you  a  few  definite  words  for 
concentration  for  prosperity  I  suggest 
that  you  follow  the  general  directions 
given  for  the  various  treatments  and 
use  the  keynote  on  the  opposite  page  for 
your  first  practice,  and  as  you  get  more 
fully  into  the  spirit  of  this  method,  you 
will  find  many  rich,  helpful  texts  that 
you  can  use  at  various  times.  Eegular- 
ity  is  essential  in  this  as  on  all  the  other 
practices  if  you  would  keep  the  connec- 
tion full  and  perfect. 


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Praise  ye  the  Lord.  Blessed  is  the  man 
that  feareth  the  Lord,  that  delighteth  greatly 
in  His  Commandments. 

His  seed  shall  be  mighty  upon  earth;  the 
generation  of  the  upright  shall  be  blessed. 

Wealth  and  riches  shall  be  in  his  house, 
and  his  righteousness  endureth  forever. 

Psalm  CXII.    1-2-3. 


Keynote  for  Daily  Treatment  for  Prosperity: 

/  'will  praise  the  Lord  for  my  privilege  of 
using  and  increasing  the  abundance  of  His  riches; 
NOW,  TO-DAY  am  I  blessed  with  plenty. 


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"S 


<u 
Ou 


Keynote   on   opposite   page 


No.  I 
Treatment  to  Cut  Off  Undesirable  Influences 

This  treatment  is  intended  for  those  who  are 
sensitive  to  undesirable  influences  in  the  Seen  or 
Unseen  Eealms.  To  be  practised  at  least  three 
times  a  day  and  oftener  if  necessary. 

Stand  erect,  facing  the  east  and  declare  in  a 
positive  tone:  I  AM  ONE  WITH  THE  INFIN- 
ITE FATHEE.  IN  HIM  I  LIVE,  I  MOVE,  I 
HAVE  MY  BEING.  I  HAVE  THE  FREEDOM 
OF  THE  SONS  OF  GOD. 

Breathe  deeply  and  as  you  inhale,  think  the 
word  "I,"  as  you  exhale,  think  the  word  "AM." 
Do  this  five  times;  then  say  earnestly  and  rever- 
ently: I  AM  SPIRIT.  As  spirit  I  am  wise, 
strong,  intelligent,  holy.  As  spirit  I  am  individ- 
ualized force,  the  master  over  emotions,  thoughts, 
conditions.  I  am  like  the  light  which  cannot  be 
touched  by  darkness.  I  am  strong  to  withstand 
any,  all,  conditions  that  are  undesirable.  I  am 
not  influenced  by  the  thoughts  and  feelings  in  the 

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atmosphere  around  me.  As  spirit,  I  cannot  be 
influenced  by  the  thoughts  or  conditions  from  the 
unseen  realm.  I  am  now  insulated,  environed  by 
the  protecting  light  of  the  Spirit. 

Pushing  the  hands  outward  in  a  repelling  ges- 
ture to  the  east  say:  I  now  put  away  from  me 
any  thoughts  or  influences  that  may  come  to  me 
from  any  source  whatever.  Then  turn  to  the 
south  and  say  the  same,  then  to  the  west,  then  to 
the  north.  Repeat  these  words  three  times  in 
each  direction.  After  you  have  once  more  faced 
the  east  still  standing  erect  and  positive,  declare: 
I  am  now  free  from  magnetic,  mental,  or  psychic 
attractions;  I  live  and  move  above  the  realm  of 
negative  conditions  and  hence  can  feel,  know  and 
express  in  all  my  Being  the  direct  harmony  and 
perfection  which  belongs  to  pure  Spirit. 

I  say  these  words  in  reverence  and  faith  that 
my  Father  has  endowed  me  with  the  individuality 
which  permits  me  thus  to  express  my  mastership. 


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It  is  not  only  a  privilege  for  you  to  send  out 
your  helpful  thought  for  the  benefit  of  those  who 
need  help,  but  it  is  one  of  the  great  means  by 
which  you  may  find,  and  increase  your  talents. 

You  may  have  a  special  gift  for  speaking  the 
healing,  comforting,  or  renewing  word.  Be  a 
channel  for  the  Power  of  righteousness  to  work 
through  and  scatter  blessings  everywhere. 


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No.  II 
For  Overcoming  Secret  or  Vicious  Habits 

Back  of  every  sense  desire  is  a  spiritual  force. 
When  you  are  craving  stimulants  of  any  kind 
such  as  alcohol,  morphine,  tobacco  and  things  of 
like  nature  you  must  not  condemn,  but  interpret 
the  desire.  If  you  trace  it  back  you  will  find  that 
before  you  desired  these  things  you  desired  hap- 
piness or  pleasure.  This  was  the  spiritual  force 
back  of  the  desire. 

The  nerves,  which  are  the  connecting  links  be- 
tween soul  and  body  having  been  falsely  educated 
to  respond  to  sensations  induced  through  a  grati- 
fication of  the  senses,  deluded  you  into  thinking 
that  your  happiness  could  be  obtained  by  yielding 
to  the  demand  of  the  senses. 

This  was  the  beginning  of  your  habit  of  indul- 
gence. In  order  to  correct  the  habit  let  your  mind 
consider  again  the  desire  for  happiness  and  you 
will  see  that  after  all,  it  is  not  the  momentary 
pleasure  which  can  be  produced  through  the 

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senses  that  is  happiness,  but  that  which  lies  far 
deeper. 

The  satisfaction  to  the  spirit  when  you  have 
done  well,  when  you  have  been  TRUE  TO  THE  HIGH- 
EST PRINCIPLES  OF  RIGHT,  JUSTICE  AND  TRUTH — THIS 
IS  REAL  HAPPINESS. 

To  abide  in  this  state  is  to  be  free  from  the  de- 
lusions concerning  the  deceitful  and  deceiving 
pleasures  that  come  through  the  senses.  When 
you  can  see  this  clearly,  you  will  be  able  to  realize 
that  it  is  a  deep  hungering  of  your  soul  rather 
than  a  bodily  craving  which,  because  perverted 
and  misunderstood,  has  caused  and  continues  to 
cause  your  temptations  and  falls. 

If  then,  you  are  ready  to  honestly  undertake 
the  overcoming  of  your  vicious  habits  you  will  see 
yourself  as  God  made  you  and  as  you  are  in  your 
true  being. 

The  method  of  overcoming  is  that  of  acknowl- 
edging your  higher  self  and  its  relation  to  the 
Father.  On  this  basis  I  give  you  the  following 
words  to  be  learned  and  repeated  faithfully  at 
least  twenty  times  in  the  morning,  twenty  times  at 
noon  and  fifty  times  before  retiring. 

WORD  TREATMENT. — "Oh,  my  Father,  I  am  Thy 

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child.  I  hunger  for  the  food  of  Thy  word  in  my 
soul.  I  thirst  for  communion  with  Thee;  feed  me 
that  I  shall  be  satisfied.  Hold  me  in  the  palm  of 
Thy  hand  that  I  may  be  protected  from  all  evil, 
yet  give  unto  me  strength  to  be  the  master  of  my 
body,  of  my  mind,  of  all  conditions  in  my  world. 
Let  me  go  forth  to  my  duties  with  this  sense  of 
mastership  ringing  in  my  soul  so  that  I  may  eat 
and  drink,  walk  and  work  in  the  happiness  of  the 
spiritual  life.  I  know  that  as  spirit  I  am  free 
from  every  desire  of  the  flesh,  as  spirit  I  am  satis- 
fied; as  spirit  I  am  wise,  I  am  strong,  and  because 
thou  hast  made  me  in  Thy  image  and  Thy  like- 
ness, I  am  free  every  moment  of  ever$  day  and  of 
every  night.  In  this  freedom  from  all  habits  of 
thought  or  action  which  are  contrary  to  Thy 
thought  or  will,  I  now  declare  that  I  AM  WIL- 
LING TO  PROVE  MYSELF  MY  OWN  MAS- 
TER AND  THY  OBEDIENT  CHILD.  In  Thy 
strength  I  AM  STRONG,  in  Thy  life,  I  AM 
TRULY  ALIVE  and  live  according  to  the  pattern 
of  holiness  which  Thou  hast  put  into  my  heart. 
Amen." 


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No.  HI 

Treatment  for  Catarrh,  Throat  and 
Lung  Trouble 

PREPARATION. — Imagine  a  point  at  the  center 
of  your  being  (spirit)  where  the  Light  is  never 
dim.  Center  your  thought  upon  a  definite  spot 
at  the  base  of  the  lungs  of  the  physical  body  until 
you  have  learned  to  concentrate  your  mind  with- 
out this  aid.  As  you  look  out  at  the  sunlight 
which  is  giving  your  body  warmth  and  strength 
every  day,  try  to  realize  that  the  same  Power  back 
of  this  mighty  flood  of  sunlight  is  the  Power 
which  dwells  at  the  center  of  your  being.  As  the 
sun  animates  and  sends  the  life  forces  pulsing 
through  the  earth,  so  this  Light  within  you,  sends 
throbbing  vibrations  of  health  through  every  cell 
of  your  body. 

WORD  TREATMENT. — With  reverent  recognition 
of  my  birthright,  I  claim  my  sonship  with  the 
Almighty.  I  am  spirit,  created  in  the  image  and 
likeness  of  God,  and  endowed  ivith  divine  perfec- 

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tion.  My  body  is  the  instrument  given  me  by  the 
Father  through  which  I  express  to  the  world  my 
divine  character.  At  the  center  of  my  being,  I 
dwell  in  harmony  with  God,  my  loving  Father. 

EXERCISE. — Go  to  an  open  window,  if  possible, 
facing  the  east,  or  if  this  is  not  convenient,  stand 
with  your  face  turned  toward  the  east.  Let  your 
arms  hang  loosely  at  your  sides.  Slowly  inhale, 
raising  the  arms  gradually  until  you  have  drawn 
in  all  the  pure  fresh  air  that  your  lungs  will  hold. 
As  you  inhale  think  the  word  ''Life,"  and  try  to 
realize  that  you  are  breathing  in  the  very  essence 
of  health.  Then  slowly  exhale,  keeping  full  con- 
trol of  the  breath  and  letting  the  arms  gently 
descend  to  the  first  position  as  the  lungs  are 
emptied  of  air.  Hold  the  word  "Love,"  in 
thought  and  send  forth  a  blessing  to  the  whole 
world.  Repeat  this  seven  times  at  each  treatment 
and  give  yourself  a  treatment  early  in  the  morn, 
ing,  at  sunrise,  if  possible,  at  noon,  and  at  sunset.. 
All  through  the  day  let  this  be  the  undercurrent 
of  your  thought  and  consciousness:  God  is  my 
Life.  God  is  my  Health.  In  Him  I  live,  I  move, 
I  have  my  Being. 

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Sing  these  words  to  yourself,  repeat  them  many 
times  and  rejoice  with  a  heart  full  of  thanksgiving 
and  praise. 


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No.  IV 

Treatment  for  Nervousness  and 
Self -Consciousness 

Texts  to  be  held : 

"Blessed  are  the  Peacemakers  (they  who  make 
peace)  for  they  shall  be  called  the  children  of 
God." 

"Peace  unto  him  who  is  near  and  to  him  who 
is  afar  off  and  I  will  heal  him,"  saith  the  Lord. 

Let  your  first  thought  on  awakening  be  a 
thanksgiving  for  your  life,  your  privileges,  your 
possibilities. 

Take  long  deep  breaths  while  dressing,  then 
when  you  are  ready  to  leave  your  room,  before 
doing  so,  give  yourself  five  full  minutes  in  which 
to  say  with  all  your  mind  and  heart :  "I  will  live 
on  the  highest  plane  to-day,  the  plane  of  spirit. 
As  1  am  spirit,  I  am  free  from  all  inharmony  and 
irritation.  I  am  above  nerves  and  nervousness, 
for  1,  the  spirit,  control  the  flesh  and  flesh  condi- 
tions. As  spirit,  I  am  sensitive  to  high,  holy 
thoughts  and  influences.  Neither  my  mind  nor 

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my  nervous  system  will  register  or  report  any  dis- 
cords, for  I  breathe  in  the  vital  forces  of  God's 
whole  universe  and  transmute  them  into  strength 
and  health.  I  am  at  one  and  in  harmony  with  the 
best  of  every  soul,  therefore  only  the  best  touches 
me.  I  can  change  every  word  or  tone  of  discord 
to  harmony.  .1  am  loving  to  all,  at  peace  with  all, 
and  am  free,  happy,  strong,  and  filled  with  God's 
own  peace."  Amen. 


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I  will  sing  unto  the  Lord  as  long  as  I  live ;  I  will 
sing  praise  to  my  God  while  I  have  my  being.  My 
meditation  of  Him  shall  be  sweet;  I  will  be  glad 
in  the  Lord. 

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No.  V 
Treatment  for  Indigestion  and  Constipation 

When  you  are  troubled  with  indigestion  you 
must  realize  that  there  is  a  mental  as  well  as 
a  physical  cause  for  the  trouble.  It  may  be  a 
chronic  state  of  worry  concerning  some  particular 
thing  or  things  in  general.  People  who  have  a 
secret  cause  for  worry,  who  are  mentally  rejecting 
some  circumstance  or  condition  in  life  are  apt  to 
have  indigestion  and  constipation.  Think  over 
this  carefully  and  see  if  your  mind  is  clouded  or 
troubled.  If  it  is  you  must  have  recourse  to  the 
spirit.  You  must  lift  your  consciousness  above 
the  mental  and  physical  conditions  by  realizing 
that  in  the  spirit  you  are  free,  because  in  the 
spirit  there  are  no  clouds,  no  troubles,  no  diseases. 
Your  preliminary  meditation  may  be  something 
like  this: — 

''From  this  moment  I  decide  to  see  only  that 
which  is  good  and  true  and  beautiful.  I  resolve 
to  cultivate  the  habit  of  looking  for  the  good  in 

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every  circumstance  and  condition  of  my  life. 
Whatever  seems  hard  or  dark  or  undesirable  to 
me,  I  will  take  unto  the  Lord  and  leave  Him  to 
deal  with  it.  Everything  that  is  helpful  and  good 
and  true  I  will  appropriate  to  myself,  assimilate 
into  my  life  and  thought.  By  so  doing  I  realize 
that  my  stomach  which  is  the  organ  that  performs 
the  same  office  for  the  physical  that  my  mind  per- 
forms for  my  intellectual  and  moral  being,  will  be 
put  into  a  harmonious  condition  so  that  it  can  per- 
form its  work  properly  and  well.  Knowing  that 
every  cell  in  the  body  has  its  degree  of  conscious- 
ness, I  speak  to  the  cells  of  my  stomach  and  tell 
them  that  they  are  able  to  do  their  work,  that  each 
cell  is  willing  to  work  in  harmony  with  its  neigh- 
bor, and  thus  enable  the  stomach  to  digest  the 
food  that  it  is  given.  I  declare  that  harmony 
reigns  in  my  whole  physical  being,  that  every  or- 
gan is  perfect  and  that  it  is  willing  to  accept  what- 
soever work  it  is  given  to  perform. 

WORD  TREATMENT. — With  a  happy  mind  I  ivill 
sit  down  to  every  meal  believing  that  in  the  same 
happy  receptive  state,  my  stomach  will  receive 
and  take  care  of  the  material  which  is  to  make 
good  healthy  flesh  and  blood.  Every  morning 

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I  will  say,  This  is  to  be  my  happy  day,  my  day  of 
accepting  and  assimilating  both  mentally  and  phy- 
sically whatever  comes  to  me.  Every  night  I  will 
speak  in  praise  and  appreciation  of  the  good  work 
that  has  been  done  in  my  body,  and  I  will  go  to 
sleep  in  the  happy  expectation  that  whatever 
needs  to  be  strengthened  or  healed  will  be  per- 
fectly strengthened  and  healed,  during  the 
night  so  that  I  may  again  arise  to  another  day  of 
happiness  and  health.  I  speak  these  words  know- 
ing that  my  Father  worketh  in  me  to  the  accom- 
plishment of  His  perfect  work  in  my  soul,  mind 
and  body. 

In  addition  to  this  see  that  your  food  is  simple, 
wholesome  and  nourishing.  Do  not  eat  too  many 
things  at  one  meal.  Milk,  fruit,  nuts,  cereals, 
eggs  and  whole  wheat  or  graham  bread  should  be 
the  main  diet.  Drink  plenty  of  water,  taking  one 
or  two  glasses  in  the  morning  and  same  at  night 
before  retiring.  Also  several  during  the  day. 

By  observing  these  rules  there  is  no  reason  why 
you  should  not  be  perfectly  cured  of  indigestion 
and  constipation.  HAVE  FAITH!  HAVE  ENTHUSI- 
ASM! 


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No.  VI 

Treatment  for  Failing  Eyesight 

GENERAL  DIRECTIONS. — Recognize  your  sight  as 
spiritual,  not  material,  even  though  you  may  wear 
glasses,  do  not  wear  them  with  condemnation; 
that  is,  do  not  continually  regret  that  you  are  ob- 
liged to  wear  them  or  deplore  the  condition  of 
your  eyes.  On  the  contrary,  keep  steadily  before 
your  mind  the  picture  of  your  perfect  eyes  and 
the  idea  that  the  sight  is  of  the  spirit.  That  there 
is  no  age  in  the  spirit,  therefore  yours  can  make 
no  difference  to  the  spirit.  Every  night  before 
you  retire  and  every  morning  when  you  awake  for 
five  or  ten  minutes  speak  these  words : — 

WORD  TREATMENT. — "I  thank  tliee,  Father,  that 
thou  hast  given  me  the  gift  of  perfect  sight.  I 
know  that  in  the  spirit  there  can  be  no  loss  of  the 
sense  of  sight  and  that  to  the  spirit  there  are  no 
conditions.  I  declare  that  I  see  through  the 
power  of  the  spirit.  That  I  am  able  also  to  ob- 
serve spiritual  truths  clearly.  The  physical 


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correspondence  to  spiritual  perception  is  physical 
sight.  I  praise  Thee  and  thank  Thee  for  giving 
me  perception  and  the  organs  of  vision.  I  will 
endeavor  at  all  times  to  be  single-eyed  to  the  pure 
and  whole  truth  in  myself,  in  my  neighbors,  in  Thy 
beautiful  world.  I  will  seek  to  always  look  for 
the  perfect.,  the  beautiful  and  the  true.  Thy 
words  are  a  continuous  renewing.  They  bring  me 
vitality  and  strength  and  youth.  1  live  in  Thee; 
in  Thee  I  am  perfect  and  therefore  I  see  perfectly 
Thy  perfect  world.  Amen." 

A  PHYSICAL  EXERCISE  TO  BE  PRACTICED  TWO  OB 
THREE  TIMES  A  DAY. 

Sit  down  in  a  chair  and  look  at  some  point  you 
decide  upon  on  a  range  with  your  eyes.  It  may 
be  the  door  knob  or  it  may  be  the  pattern  in  the 
wall  paper.  Look  at  this  object,  without  moving 
your  head,  roll  your  eyes  upward  as  far  as  possi- 
ble ;  return  to  the  point.  Roll  to  the  extreme  right 
as  far  as  possible  (without  turning  the  head) ;  re- 
turn to  the  point.  Roll  to  the  extreme  left  as  far 
as  possible ;  return  to  the  point.  Roll  to  the  obli- 
que right  as  far  as  possible;  return  to  the  point. 
Roll  to  the  oblique  left;  return  to  the  point. 

Do  this  three  or  four  times.  It  is  a  splendid 
exercise  and  will  tend  to  strengthen  all  the  mus- 

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cles  and  give  the  eye  the  roundness  of  youth.  If 
you  will  be  faithful  to  this  practice  in  connection 
with  the  mental  suggestion  already  given,  you 
will  have  ivonderful  results. 

In  addition  to  this  frequently  bathe  your  eyes 
night  and  morning  with  a  solution  of  salt  and  wa- 
ter. You  can  put  a  little  in  the  palm  of  your  hand 
or  in  a  tea  spoon  and  laying  your  eye  upon  it, 
wink  so  that  the  fluid  will  get  into  the  eye.  You 
will  find  this  very  refreshing  and  healthful.  Be 
careful  not  to  read  lying  down.  Be  sure  to  have 
the  right  light  when  you  read.  All  of  these  things 
are  important. 


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No.  VII 
Treatment  for  Rheumatism 

GENERAL  DIRECTIONS. — In  the  first  place  try  to 
have  your  clothing  warm  and  yet  light  in  weight, 
so  that  there  will  be  a  free  circulation  of  the  air 
through  your  clothing.  Get  as  much  sunshine  and 
fresh  air  as  possible,  and  see  that  there  is  a  good 
circulation  of  air  in  your  sleeping-room.  Cover 
yourself  up  well,  even  the  top  of  your  head  if  you 
feel  a  draught,  but  have  the  nostrils  free  from  all 
covering,  so  that  you  can  breathe  in  the  pure  fresh 
air  while  sleeping.  Drink  plenty  of  cold  water, 
one  glass  before  breakfast  and  two  during  the 
morning,  also  during  .the  afternoon  and  at  least 
two  glasses  of  water  before  you  go  to  sleep  at 
night.  Avoid  starchy  foods  and  acids.  Eat 
plenty  of  fresh  vegetables  and  drink  very  little  of 
any  kind  of  stimulating  drinks,  such  as  tea,  coffee 
or  liquors  of  any  kind. 

SPECIAL  EXERCISE. — The  first  thing  in  the  morn- 
ing stand  erect  and  if  the  weather  is  warm  enough, 

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lay  aside  all  of  your  night  clothing  and  stretch 
your  arms  up  as  far  as  you  can  reach,  stiffening 
each  finger  up  to  its  full  length,  then  slowly  drop 
the  arms  to  a  horizontal  position  and  stretch  them 
out  in  this  position,  then  drop  them  straight  down 
at  the  sides,  alternating  from  a  tense  to  a  relaxed 
condition  of  the  muscles  during  all  this  time.    Re- 
peat this  at  least  seven  times,  then  lift  the  right 
foot  slowly  up  until  the  knee  is  well  bent,  and 
repeat  this  seven  times.    The  same  with  the  left 
foot.    Then  bend  your  whole  body  forward,  then 
straighten  it  up  again;  bend  it  sideways  toward 
the  right,  and  then  toward  the  left.    During  all 
this     time     breathe     as     evenly     as     possible, 
taking  in  the  fresh  air  and  exhaling  all  that  is 
impure    from    the    lungs.     After    taking    this 
practice,  start  in  and  take  a  light,  sponge  bath, 
but  instead  of  using  a  towel  or  cloth  to  dry  the 
body  rub  it  dry  with  the  palms  of  the  hands,  com- 
mencing at  the  neck  and  working  all  the  way  down 
to  your  feet.    Keep  up  a  brisk  rubbing  until  your 
whole  body  is  in  a  glow.    If  you  are  sensitive  to 
draughts  at  the  beginning  of  this  practice,  keep 
a  light  covering  over  whatever  part  of  your  body 
you  are  not  rubbing;  thus  you  can  gradually  ad- 

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just  the  cover  as  you  go  on  with  the  friction,  and 
this  will  prevent  you  from  taking  cold.  This  is 
what  is  called  a  magnetic  bath  and  it  will  bring 
such  a  sense  of  vigor  and  vitality  into  your  body, 
that  it-  will  stimulate  the  flow  of  blood  to  every 
part  and  each  cell  will  be  revivified. 

WORD  TREATMENT. — "I  am  at  one  with  the 
Great  Magnetic  Center  of  the  Universe.  The  vi- 
brations of  the  eternal  living  forces  flow  into  my 
body.  I  am  bathed  in  a  strong,  electric  current;  1 
am  filled  with  vibrations  of  health.  Around  and 
about  me  is  drawn  an  aura  of  health  and  I  am 
strong,  vigorous,  bright,  healthy,  joyous;  life, 
eternal,  everlasting  life,  fills  and  thrills  me 
through  and  through.  I  praise  God  with  all  my 
heart,  with  all  my  soul,  with  all  my  mind,  and 
thank  Him  for  my  health  and  strength.  Amen." 

This  treament  can  be  repeated  at  night  before 
going  to  sleep  and  if  desirable  omit  the  cold  water 
in  taking  the  magnetic  bath.  Just  rub  yourself 
briskly  with  your  hands,  and  then  go  to  rest, 
knowing  that  the  Omnipotent  forces  are  working 
for  your  healing. 


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No.  VIII 

Treatment  for  Those  Addicted  to 
Evil  Habits 

Sometimes  you  have  one  very  near  and  dear  to 
you  who  is  addicted  to  drinking,  or  morphine  or 
some  other  vice.  Your  heart  yearns  to  help  him, 
yet  you  are  very  apt  to  spend  time  in  anxiety  and 
tears,  when  you  think  of  him. 

Beloved,  in  this  way  you  are  harming,  rather 
than  helping  him.  Your  constant  thought  of  his 
weakness  and  shortcomings  even  though  it  be  a 
kindly  pitying  thought  creates  an  atmosphere  of 
darkness  which  oppresses  and  enfolds  him  like  a 
heavy  fog. 

As  you  want  to  help  him,  by  all  means  change 
your  attitude  of  mind  towards  him.  Stop  think- 
ing these  things  which  though  they  are  true  as  to 
the  flesh,  MAY  BE  CHANGED  BY  THE  POWER  OF  THE 
SPIRIT.  Try  to  look  through  the  veil  of  his  failure 
to  that  divine  spark  of  Light  which  is  his  true  self. 
Think  of  that  as  being  ALWAYS  PERFECT.  While 
you  are  in  your  room,  send  to  him  earnestly  every 

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night  when  you  think  he  has  gone  to  sleep  and 
every  morning  before  he  awakens  words  like 
these : — 

"Dear  (John  or  Mary  or  whatever  his  name 
may  be)  I  am  now  thinking  of  you  as  you  are  in 
your  spirit.  In  the  spirit  you  are  strong.  In  the 
spirit  you  are  pure.  You  are  satisfied  with  the 
great  gifts  God  has  given  you,  and  because  you 
are  satisfied,  you  are  not  seeking  for  the  pleasure 
which  destroys,  but  for  the  peace  and  the  joy 
ivhich  builds  up  mind  and  body. — God  is  your 
strength  in  every  moment  of  temptation.  In  the 
spirit  you  are  not  tempted  for  you  are  awake  to 
all  your  possibilities  and  wonderful  powers. 

"As  you  go  forth  to  your  work  and  walk  along 
the  street  you  are  attracted  to  only  that  which  is 
good  and  beautiful  and  healthful.  There  is  noth- 
ing in  you  that  can  answer  to  any  temptation. 
You  do  not  want  liquor  or  morphine  or  tobacco 
or  anything  which  is  not  natural  and  good.  By 
speaking  this  way  to  you  and  about  you  I  can  see 
in  my  mind  a  picture  of  you  as  God  intended  you 
should  be.  I  see  you  with  a  strong  pure  mind; 
with  a  beautiful  healthy  body.  This  is  the  pic- 
ture that  I  am  going  to  see  every  time  I  think,  of 

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you,  and  no  matter  what  you  may  appear,  dear 
(John  or  Mary)  I  shall  endeavor  at  all  times  to 
keep  this  picture  of  you  before  me.  I  love  you 
and  trust  you  and  I  leave  you  now  in  the  care  and 
protection  of  God,  who  is  able  to  do  all  things  that 
are  for  His  glory,  in  you.  I  leave  you  in  His  care 
now  and  always.  Amen." 

If  you  will  learn  these  words  and  say  them  ten 
minutes  night  and  morning  as  I  have  directed,  you 
will  be  a  great  comfort  and  blessing  to  your  dear 
one.  Indeed  you  may  lead  him  straight  into  the 
path  of  right  doing.  In  addition  to  this  try  to 
make  everything  pleasant  in  the  home.  See  that 
he  has  plenty  of  nourishing  food.  Study  to  make 
everything  in  his  room  and  about  the  home  parti- 
cularly attractive,  for  all  this  will  help  you  to 
remove  the  awful  cloud  that  your  worry  and  fear 
have  woven  about  him.  Above  all  else  realize  that 
he  is  in  God's  care.  Leave  him  there. 


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No.  IX 

Treatment  for  Managing  Children  and 
Keeping  Them   Healthy 

In  the  first  place  study  the  temperaments  of 
your  children.  What  may  do  as  a  method  for  one 
may  not  always  be  the  best  for  another.  Children 
who  are  nervous,  active  and  restless,  need  very 
different  tactics  than  those  who  are  quiet,  slow 
and  easily  contented. 

The  restless  child  should  have  a  nap  once  or 
twice  a  day.  Should  always  receive  immediate 
attention  for  any  need  that  he  may  have.  At  all 
times  should  be  treated  gently.  Out  of  the  abund- 
ance of  the  real  and  abiding  love  in  your  heart 
should  be  born  the  wisdom  with  which  you  may 
guide  your  children. 

See  that  they  have  simple  nourishing  food. 
That  they  eat  regularly  and  go  to  bed  early. 
Many  times  a  child  is  irritable  because  it  is  over- 
tired, because  it  has  not  been  properly  fed. 

Besides  the  good,  physical  care,  see  that  you 


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also  give  your  children  the  kind  which  will  be  as 
food  to  the  soul. 

Let  each  child  have  a  little  time  during  the  day 
or  in  the  evening  before  going  to  bed  for  a  SPECIAL 
HEAKT  TO  HEART  TALK  WITH  YOU.  Encourage  the 
telling  of  whatever  may  be  of  interest  whether  it 
be  about  the  play  or  about  something  that  has 
happened  during  the  day.  Whatever  the  child 
wants  to  tell  you  at  the  confidence  hour,  let  him 
feel  free  to  tell.  Show  your  interest  and  sympa- 
thy in  all  his  little  plans  and  his  play,  and  in 
everything  that  concerns  him. 

Even  at  a  very  young  age,  yes,  as  soon  as  he 
understands  any  language,  you  can  begin  teaching 
him  how  to  choose  the  good  thought  and  good  ac- 
tion. Treat  him  as  an  individual.  Show  him  that 
he  can  choose  how  to  act,  and  that  he  knows  the 
difference  between  the  good  and  bad.  Trust  him. 

Let  him  feel  that  he  is  a  co-worker  and  co-part- 
ner in  the  home. 

Every  night  let  him  say  some  little  prayer  that 
will  turn  his  thoughts  into  an  aspiration  to  be 
good.  After  he  has  gone  to  bed  or  even  while  he 
is  going  to  sleep  speak  in  a  low,  monotonous, 
soothing  tone  and  tell  him  something  like  this : 

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WORD  TREATMENT. — "Darling,  you  want  to  be 
good.  Your  little  heart  is  full  of  love  for  every 
one.  You  want  to  be  kind  to  sister  and  to  your 
little  brother.  You  want  to  learn  to  think  beau- 
tiful thoughts  so  that  you  will  grow  up  to  be  a 
good  (man  or  woman).  You  feel  well  and  happy. 
I  am  giving  you  these  thoughts  now,  so  that  you 
luill  sleep  sweetly  and  knoiv  how  true  it  is  that 
you  are  God's  own,  good,  happy  child.  This  will 
make  you  well  and  strong.  It  will  make  your  body 
able  to  do  whatever  it  should  do,  to  grow  strong 
and  beautiful.  Good  night,  darling;  you  will 
sleep  with  the  angels  watching  over  you,  and  with 
mother's  love  around  you  like  warm,  soft  arms. 
I  leave  you  now  in  God's  care.  It  will  heal  and 
bless  you  and  make  you  good." 


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No.  X 

A  Treatment  for  Harmonizing  Home 
Relations 

The  home  should  be  an  emblem  of  perfection. 
It  is  an  organization  composed  of  different  mem- 
bers. There  should  be  perfect  harmony  and  sym- 
pathy between  all  the  members,  in  order  to  have 
the  perfect  home. 

You  as  a  member  of  the  home  must  do  your 
part.  It  may  be  that  you  understand  better  the 
law  of  harmony,  and  can  therefore  not  only  main- 
tain your  own  part  but  help  others  to  do  theirs. 
The  first  thing  is  to  recognize  that  every  one  is  an 
individual  and  has  rights  and  liberties  as  an  in- 
dividual. 

Given  the  freedom  whereby  each  member  may 
follow  out,  to  a  reasonable  extent,  his  tastes  and 
desires,  there  will  naturally  be  a  feeling  of  sym- 
pathy and  harmony  among  all  members. 

This  is  what  should  be.    Your  ATTITUDE  OF  MIND 

SHOULD  BE  ONE  OF  JUSTICE  AND  LOVE  AND  SYMPATHY. 

This   means   of   course   that   you  banish   every 

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thought  of  criticism  or  selfishness.  When  you  ard 
sure  you  have  within  yourself  that  real  harmony, 

yOU  Will  EMANATE   HARMONY,   YOU   WILL   CREATE   AN 

ATMOSPHERE  OF  HARMONY.    You  will  be  as  it  were, 

LIKE  THE  SUN,  RADIATING  LIGHT   IN   ALL  DIRECTIONS 

and  making  of  your  home  an  ideal  spot,  and  a 
place  of  peace  and  happiness.  All  members  will 
feel  this. 

The  first  essential  in  doing  this  kind  of 
work  is  to  deal  with  yourself.  This  means  you 
are  to  keep  an  atmosphere  of  harmony.  You  al- 
ready know  how  to  put  away  all  thoughts  except- 
ing those  which  are  kind  and  loving. 

Now  if  you  have  a  member  of  the  home  who 
is  discordant,  or  unhappy,  let  your  thoughts  go 
to  him  in  an  endeavor  to  turn  the  light  of  your 
inward  happiness  and  joy  upon  him.  Think  of 
him  in  this  way ! 

WORD  TREATMENT. — "Dear  there  is  no 

thought  of  criticism  in  my  heart  toward  you.  In- 
deed 1  can  think  only  loving  thoughts.  I  feel  be- 
cause of  this  that  I  understand  you.  I  know  that 
very  often  when  you  come  home  irritable  and 
impatient  it  is  merely  because  you  are  for  the 
time  being  overtired.  I  will  therefore  have  pa- 
Two  Hundred  and  Thirty 


Hence  with  you.  It  is  my  aim  and  intention  at  all 
times  to  be  true  and  just  in  every  word  that  I  say 
to  you,  and  this  moment  I  am  sending  to  you  a 
full  and  flowing  stream  of  loving  thoughts  which 
will  convey  to  you  my  confidence  and  esteem.  In 
this  way  I  pray  that  I  may  turn  your  thought  to 
the  High  Source  of  all  love  and  harmony  that 
you  may  receive  and  enjoy  as  I  do,  that  infloiv  of 
strength  and  love  from  our  Father  which  makes  it 
possible  for  us  to  be  harmonious  and  happy.  May 
God's  love  brood  over  you  always,  and  may  I 
be  ever  willing  and  able  to  help  you  to  live  up  to 
your  highest  and  best  at  all  times,  and  under  all 
circumstances.  Now  may  love  do  its  perfect  work 
with  you,  with  me,  ivith  all  members  of  our  be- 
loved home.  Amen." 


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No.  XI 
How  to  find  your  Talents. 

Just  so  surely  as  every  creature  is  born  with 
instincts,  every  human  being  is  born  with  talents 
— faculties.  You  have  THEM.  How  many,  or  what 
they  are,  you  can  only  know  when  you  begin  to 
use  them. 

Perhaps  you  have  thought  yourself  wholly  lack- 
ing in  the  possession  of  these.  Perhaps  you  have 
pitied  yourself  and  cried  in  secret  because  you 
could  not  do  or  become  what  others  have,  or  per- 
haps you  have  flung  yourself  in  petulance  away 
from  opportunities,  because  they  set  tasks  before 
you  that  you  did  not  like. 

If  you  have  done  any  or  all  of  these  things, 
stop,  and  put  away  even  the  memory  of  your 
thought  or  action  concerning  the  gifts  God  has 
given  you. 

Begin  now,  and  believe  that  YOU  have  talents. 

This  will  be  an  open  door  to  hope,  courage,  VIC- 
TORY. 

See  how  warm  your  heart  grows  at  thought  of 
it,  how  many  bright  dreams  crowd  into  your 
mind,  how  eager  you  are  to  do  something ! 

These  are  signs  of  the  talents  that  have  been 

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folded  away  in  the  napkin  of  your  ignorance. 
Unwrap  them!  Bring  them  forth!  Use  and  in- 
crease them !  For  you  can  do  wonders  when  you 
know  the  implements  you  have  to  do  with! 

These  implements  are  the  powers  of  your  mind, 
your  will,  your  judgment,  your  body ! 

You  have  been  using  these  all  your  life,  in  a 
way,  but  now  use  them  with  the  joy  of  use!  Be 
glad,  be  thankful,  be  cheerful,  be  joyous  that  you 
can  doj  even  the  homely  every  day  duties  with  a 
new  light  thrown  upon  them.  This  will  be  the 
beginning  of  expansion  in  your  faith  and  outlook 
as  to  what  you  can  do.  Keep  ever  before  you  the 
thought  "I  can  achieve,  as  well  as  appreciate." 

Then  go  about  every  task,  thinking;  I  can  do 
this,  WELL,  superbly,  I  love  to  do  it,  I  will  put 
every  thing  I  am  into  everything  I  do.  All  my 
taste,  my  skill,  my  originality  I  ivill  put  into  the 
work  of  each  moment,  for  each  moment  1  must 
express  myself,  I  will  not  imitate,  but  originate. 
I  will  be  so  open  to  the  realms  of  use  and  beauty 
that  I  will  catch  new  ideas  and  express  them  in 
the  grandest  way.  This  will  be  doing  the  thing, 
and  so  getting  the  power. 

ONE    MOMENT   AT   A   TIME,   AND   THAT   MOMENT    MY 

BEST  shall  be  my  motto  for  finding  every  talent 
that  may  now  be  folded  away  in  the  napkins  of 
indifference,  ignorance  or  idleness. 

I  pray  that  my  every  talent  may  be  increased, 
and  I  myself  established,  with  my  neighbors,  my 
brothers,  my  sisters  and  children  in  the  Kingdom 
of  God. 

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THE  NINETY-FIRST  PSALM. 

He  that  dwelleth  in  the  secret  place  of  the  Most  High,  shall 
abide  under  the  shadow  of  the  Almighty. 

I  will  say  of  the  Lord,  He  is  my  refuge,  and  my  fortress:  my 
God;  in  Him  will  I  trust. 

Surely  He  shall  deliver  thee  from  the  snare  of  the  fowler,  and 
from  the  noisome  pestilence. 

He  shall  cover  thee  with  His  feathers,  and  under  Hia  wirgs  shah 
thou  trust:  His  truth  shall  be  thy  shield  and  buckler. 

Thou  shah  not  be  afraid  for  the  terror  by  night,  nor  for  the 
arrow  that  flieth  by  day. 

Nor  for   the   pestilence   that   walketh  in  darkness,   nor  for  the 
destruction  that  wasteth  at  noonday. 

A  thousand  shall  fall  at  thy  side,  and  ten  thousand  at  thy  right 
hand;  but  it  shall  not  come  nigh  thee. 

Only  with  thine  eyes  shah  thou  behold,  and  see  the  reward  of 
the  wicked. 

Because  thou  hast  made  the  Lord,  which  is  my  refuge,  even  the 
Most  High,  thy  habitation. 

There  shal'   no  evil  befall   thee,  neither  shall  any  plague  come 
nigh  thy  dwelling. 

For  He  shall  give  His  angels  charge  over  thee,  to  keep  thee  in 
all  thy  ways. 

They  shall  bear  thee  up  in  their  hands,   lest  thou  dash  thy  foot 
against  a  stone. 

Thou  shah  tread  upon  the  lion   and  adder;  the  young  lion  and 
the  dragon  shah  thou  trample  under  feet. 

Because  he  hath  set  his  love  upon  me,  therefore  will  I  deliver  him : 
I  will  set  him  on  high,  because  he  hath  known  My  name. 

He  shall  call  upon  Me,  and  I  will  answer  him:  I  will  be  with 
him  in  trouble;  I  will  deliver  him,  and  honour  him. 

With  long  life  will  I  satisfy  him,  and  shew  him  my  salvation. 


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CARROL'S  CONVERSION 


Is  Another  Book  by 


Rev.  HELEN    VAN-ANDERSON 

This    is    a    Companion    Volume   to    THE    RIGHT    KNOCK 

You  need  such  a  book  as  CARROL'S  CONVERSION  to  show  how  a  life  may  be 
completely  changed  from  darkness  to  light.  Courage,  sympathy  and  understand- 
ing with  which  to  help  others  are  what  we  all  need.  These  are  inspired  by  reading 
this  story  from  life. 

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before  you — the  picture  of  a 
lonely  child  who  was  unhappy 
and  misunderstood  because  she 
was  afraid  of  God,  and  could 
not  find  the  way  to  Him  until 
she  at  last  learned  the  secret. 
The  great  change  that  came  to 
her,  the  new  life,  the  grand 
work  for  the  friendless,  and  the 
many  beautiful  glimpses  of 
what  may  come  to  everybody 
is  the  theme  of 
CARROL'S  CONVERSION. 

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